Piscine – pool

Today we’ll look at the feminine noun la piscine, which means swimming pool. We’ll also cover two ways to say “to swim”: faire de la natation and nager. Let’s dive into the lesson!

la piscine

swimming pool

Word origin

The Modern French word piscine comes from piscīna in Latin. Piscīna in Latin is related to the Latin noun piscis (fish).

Example sentences

This first example sentence has the expression il y a, which translates to “there is” and “there are”.

Est-ce qu‘il y a une piscine publique dans votre ville?

Is there a public pool in your city?

This second sentence is the imperect tense, which is used to describe actions which “used to” occur in the past.

Quand j’étais un enfant on avait une piscine dans le jardin.

When I was a child we used to have a swimming pool in the yard.

In this last example, I could have used the verb nager for “to swim”.

Je vais à la piscine pour faire de la natation.

I go to the pool to swim.

Related lessons

• Sports vocabulary
• Faire expressions
• Swimming vocabulary
• L’été – summer

References

• Wiktionary
• WordReference

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