Sentence examples of "fourchette" in French with translation "fork"

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Pouvons-nous avoir une fourchette ? Could we have a fork?

Retire la fourchette de la prise électrique. Take the fork out of the electric socket.

Une fourchette est tombée de la table. A fork fell off the table.

Il manie très bien le couteau et la fourchette. He handled the knife and fork very well.

La nourriture chinoise fut servie en petites portions qui ne nécessitaient pas d'être coupées avec un couteau ou une fourchette. Chinese food was served in small portions which did not require cutting with a knife or fork.

Bien que la fourchette ait été déjà introduite sur les tables des personnes bien nanties, plusieurs membres de la royauté, comme Élizabeth Première d'Angleterre ou Louis XIV de France, mangeaient avec leurs doigts. Although the fork entered society on the tables of rich people, many members of royalty, such as Elizabeth I of England and Louis XIV of France, ate with their fingers.

Ce ne sont pas tes fourchettes. These are not your forks.

Nous utilisons des baguettes à la place des couteaux et fourchettes. We use chopsticks in place of knives and forks.

Donnez-nous deux couteaux et quatre fourchettes, s'il vous plaît. Give us two knives and four forks, please.

Dans une perspective historique, les personnes utilisant des fourchettes ont toujours été une minorité. Fork-users have historically been in the minority.

Les fourchettes et les baguettes devinrent populaires parce qu'elles pouvaient facilement prendre des aliments chauds. Forks and chopsticks became popular because they could easily handle hot food.

Ceux qui utilisent des fourchettes ou des baguettes pensent souvent que les gens qui ne le font pas ne sont pas civilisés. Those who use forks or chopsticks often think people who don't are uncivilized.

Même à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, les marins de la marine britannique n'étaient pas autorisés à utiliser des couteaux et des fourchettes parce que c'était considéré comme un signe de faiblesse. Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.

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