Definition: (invariable noun*) skyscraper
Mon père travaille dans un gratte-ciel - My dad works in a skyscraper
Il y a beaucoup de gratte-ciel à New York - There are a lot of skyscrapers in New York
Related: gratter - to scrape or scratch; ciel - sky; le grattement - scratching; le gratte-dos - back-scratcher; le gratte-pieds - shoe-scraper
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*Plurals of compound nouns - see the section "verb + noun"
Mon père travaille dans un gratte-ciel - My dad works in a skyscraper
Il y a beaucoup de gratte-ciel à New York - There are a lot of skyscrapers in New York
Related: gratter - to scrape or scratch; ciel - sky; le grattement - scratching; le gratte-dos - back-scratcher; le gratte-pieds - shoe-scraper
(click the little graphic below to hear the Mot du jour pronounced)
*Plurals of compound nouns - see the section "verb + noun"
Pronunciation: [graht syehl]Audio Link
