tomber.
to fall
Meaning & usage
to fall
Un tamis placé à l'intérieur du dispositif empêchera les choses de tomber dans le tube.
to come down
Laisse la pluie tomber sur nous et recouvre le pays de cette eau qui donne la vie.
to bump into, to come across; to be received by (when making a telephone call)
J'ai téléphoné à Robert mais je suis tombé sur Marie.
to become, to get
tomber amoureux
tomber malade
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French tomber, from Old French tomber, tumber (“to dance, leap, do somersaults”), itself either of expressive/onomatopoeic origin (compare also Catalan and Portuguese tombar; Spanish tumbar; Romanian tumbă; Italian tombolare etc.), or alternatively more likely from Frankish *tumbōn, tūmōn (“to rotate, reel, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”), of uncertain origin. More at tumb. Displaced the native choir, inherited from cadō.
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