carte du jour
- noun
- /kɑrt dʊ ʒʊr/
:
menú del día
- Today's carte du jour features several seafood options and a vegetarian dish.
Examples
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The waiter handed us the carte du jour when we sat down.
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The restaurant's carte du jour features fresh seafood.
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She always enjoys choosing from the carte du jour when she dines at French restaurants.
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Have you seen the carte du jour for today?
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The waiter handed us the carte du jour when we sat down.
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Today's carte du jour features several seafood options and a vegetarian dish.
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She always enjoys choosing from the carte du jour when she dines at French restaurants.
Synonyms
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1.0
A list of food and drinks you can order at a restaurant
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8.8
A list of dishes at a restaurant
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5.3
A list of dishes served at a restaurant
How Structured
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'carte' (menu) + 'du' (of the) + 'jour' (day), yielding the straightforward meaning 'menu of the day'. This is a cross-linguistically common possessive/nominal construction, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (including the French function word 'du') will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Carte du jour comes from French: carte means 'card' or 'menu' and du jour means 'of the day'. Restaurants used to write the day's dishes on a single card, so carte du jour came to mean 'menu of the day'.