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reprocher
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiāre, from prope (“nearby”). See also rapprocher.
Pronunciation
Verb
reprocher
- to blame somebody for something (place blame upon)
- Il lui reprocha ce qu’il avait fait.
- He reproached him for what he had done.
- 2015 October 31, “Migrants : Allemagne restreint les accès à sa frontière avec Autriche”, in Le Monde:
- « Nous souhaitons parvenir à un processus ordonné », a expliqué le ministère allemand de l’intérieur, deux jours après que Berlin eut reproché aux Autrichiens de conduire des migrants à la frontière de nuit et sans prévenir la police allemande.
- ”We wish to reach an orderly process,” explained the German interior minister, two days after Berlin blamed the Austrians for driving migrants to the border at night and without warning the German police.
Conjugation
Conjugation of reprocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: reproșa
Further reading
- “reprocher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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