No. 1,127 in French
dehors
Outside.
In a sentence
Je vais jouer dehors.
I am going to play outside.
Here, "dehors" acts as an adverb indicating the location where the action will take place, outside.
Le chat est dehors à attendre.
The cat is outside waiting.
In this context, "dehors" functions as an adverb describing the where the subject, the cat, is located.
Dehors de cette maison, il y a un jardin.
Outside this house, there is a garden.
Here, "dehors" is used as a preposition to describe something external to a specific location, emphasizing its relative position.
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