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traîner

/tʁɛ.ne/

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verb/tʁɛ.ne/

to pull, drag; to bring (something bad); to suffer (from), to linger; to drag along; to lag behind, to trail

traîner les piedsto drag one's feet

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahere Vulgar Latin *traginare French traîner Inherited from Old French traïner, from Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre, from *tragere (see traire), from Latin trahere (“to pull”). Compare Italian trascinare, Catalan traginar, Spanish trajinar.