"cutlery" is called "les couverts" (usually plural) in French.
"mettre le couvert" is to set the table - not only the cutlery but also the plates, glasses,...
"où sont les couverts ?" (we're not speaking of the plates and glasses here, but only of the forks, knives, spoons): where is the cutlery?
Americans call cutlery "cutlery."
You can count cutlery, the noun 'cutlery' is an uncountable noun.But you can have one set of cutlery, or two or more sets of cutlery, or many pieces of cutlery, but the noun 'cutlery' itself never takes the plural form.
The plural form for a chest of cutlery is chests of cutlery.
Cutlery is a noun that describes the class of objects which we use to help us eat food. Knives, forks and spoons are all cutlery. It's derived from the old French word coutel which means knife. Traditionally, only metal implements were considered to be cutlery, but with the introduction of plastic tableware those also are. But what about tableware that might be considered non-traditional to Western eaters? Are chopstick cutlery? Perhaps! We shall have to see how language changes to find out.
Cutlery is very vital part of a kitchen. Without cutlery kitchen is just an empty place.
Cutlery is called cutlery because you cut with the cutlery. (Incliding cutting cake with a spoon)
what is the process in adjusting cutlery?
it goes spoon on the left fork on the right and knife at the top and plate in the middle
The collective nouns for cutlery are a set of cutlery and a canteen of cutlery .
It's a 'Canteen of cutlery'.
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H. Raymond Singleton has written: 'A chronology of cutlery' -- subject(s): Cutlery 'Ac hronology of cutlery' -- subject(s): Cutlery, History