A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation, example the French word 'entrepreneur.' Do you know any others?
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Including phrases as well as individual words: Restaurant, Je ne sais quoi, café, déja vu - French Macho - Spanish
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Words I know are: rendezvous (French word also) and blitz (German word).
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The one I like is longueur. Byron said that we might not have the word for it in England but we certainly have the thing.
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The French have (perhaps unofficially) taken in: le shampooing le weekend le pique-nique probably much to the dismay of the Academie Francaise. English has a lot of such words, largely as a result of its former "empire", so words from India such as: jodhpurs chukka and many more.
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So many words come from French: coup d'etat rendevous deja vu There are lots more but I can't think of any now.
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