There are various ways to explain what a coup d'etat might be, but the English word for it is still 'coup d'etat'.
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∙ 11y agoThe government of a country is overthrown.
un coup de crayon is 'a touch / a strike of a pen' in French.
The site at http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/index.html gives it a literal translation of: blow of meAnswerDoes not mean anything in french. Maybe it is "écoute-moi" which means "listen to me".Or maybe it's "coup de main", which means "(helping) hand".
at the time of day
Tu as attrape un coup de soleil = You've gotten a sunburn, or You've gotten sunburned.
Literally, "blow of mercy" means a death blow to end the suffering of a wounded creature. It is used figuratively to mean an event which brings about the end of anything that has been failing.
beau coup in english means alot ex: you have alot of dogs
un coup de crayon is 'a touch / a strike of a pen' in French.
beau coup in english means alot ex: you have alot of dogs
You made a mistake, it's "contrecoup" and it means repercussions, after effect.
'Coup' is a French origin loan word into English, as I'd say you are aware since you classified the question in 'French to English'. While the word 'coup' in the phrase 'counting coup' is still the same loan word from French as is used in 'coup d'etat', for example, the phrase 'counting coup' is of English origin.
Coup de grâce in French is "killing blow" in English.
Coup de la... in French means "blow of the..." in English.
The site at http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/index.html gives it a literal translation of: blow of meAnswerDoes not mean anything in french. Maybe it is "écoute-moi" which means "listen to me".Or maybe it's "coup de main", which means "(helping) hand".
coup du amour
Un Coup Bas (French) > a low blow (English).
Un coup is a blow in French. Grâce means 'mercy' or 'clemency'. Coup de grâce is a fixed expression where the one who had won the fight, kills his opponent, sparing him the pain of agony. That can be used also in a figurative sense.
coup de grâce means: death shot / end the suffering of one mortally wounded.