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The French word for fly is
mouche





fly

Gender

The gender of mouche is feminine. E.g. la mouche.

Plural

The plural of mouche is mouches.

French Definition


fly
     1. n. Mouche (insecte).
           The fly is buzzing.
           La mouche bourdonne.
     2. n. (Pêche à la ligne) Mouche (imitation d'insecte).
     3. v. (Intransitif) Voler dans les airs.
           A bird is flying.
           Un oiseau vole.
     4. v. (Intransitif) Prendre l'avion.
     5. v. (Transitif) Faire voler dans les airs.
           They are training to fly jet planes.
           Ils s'entraînent à piloter des avions à réaction.
           I love to fly a kite.
           J'adore faire du cerf-volant.
           Go fly a kite!
           Va voir ailleurs si j'y suis.
     6. n. Ouverture située à l'avant d'une tente.
     7. n. Braguette.
           Your fly is undone.
           Ta braguette est ouverte.
     8. n. (Vexillologie) Extrémité d'un drapeau la plus éloignée du mât.
     9. n. (Baseball) Chandelle, ballon.
     10. v. (Baseball) Frapper une chandelle.
           He flied out.
     11. adj. (Argot) (Rare) Bien habillé. Beau.



Translations for fly and their definitions

voler
     1. v. to fly (through the air)
     2. v. to fly (an aircraft)
     3. v. (falconry, transitive) to pursue flying
     4. v. to scarper, flee
     5. v. to steal, rob
           Quel mec a volé mon pantalon? - Which guy stole my pants?


piloter
     1. v. to pilot (control an aircraft)
     2. v. to pilot (control a vessel)
     3. v. to drive (control a vehicle)


mouchepronunciation
     1. n-f. fly (insect)
     2. n-f. bullseye (center of a target)
     3. n-f. espionage a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas
     4. n-f. (Louisiana French) bee
     5. n-f. soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip)
     6. v. first-person singular present of moucher
     7. v. third-person singular present of moucher
     8. v. second-person singular imperative of moucher


braguette
     1. n-f. fly, flies (in trousers)
     2. n-f. (historical) codpiece



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