Road
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɻɔʊd/
Noun
- A narrow strip of land made suitable for travel between places. Modern roads are usually paved to accommodate wheeled vehicles.
Prepositions
The term road is used with the preposition on. Something is on the road, but in the street.
Further reading
- Wikipedia article on roads
Translations
- Breton: hent m -où pl
- Dutch: baan f, weg m, straat f
- Finnish: tie
- French: route f
- German: Straße f
- Greek: hodos, odos
- Guarani: ape (t-), ape guasu (t-), apehũ (t-) (paved with asphalt, lit. "black road")
- Indonesian: jalan
- Interlingua: strata, via
- Italian: strada f, via f
- Japanese: 道 (みち, michi)
- Latin: via f
- Persian: راه (rah), جاده (jaddeh)
- Polish: droga f, szosa f
- Portuguese: estrada f, caminho m, via f
- Romanian: drum, n, cale f
- Russian: дорога
- Spanish: camino m
- Tupinambá: pé, apé (s-)
- Welsh: ffordd
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