No. 4,418 in French
hormis
"Except for" or "apart from."
In a sentence
Tout le monde est venu à la fête hormis Jean.
Everyone came to the party except Jean.
The word 'hormis' is used here as a preposition to exclude Jean from the group of attendees.
Hormis quelques erreurs, son exposé était excellent.
Except for a few errors, his presentation was excellent.
In this sentence, 'hormis' is used as a preposition indicating exception or exclusion regarding the errors in the presentation.
Ils acceptaient tout, hormis les conditions imposées.
They accepted everything except the imposed conditions.
Here, 'hormis' functions as a preposition to denote the exclusion of the imposed conditions from the accepted elements.
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