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Meaning of fraquén | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
fɾaˈkɛŋ

Definitions

weakness

feminine

Examples

“Ruj Garçía, cóengo da dita igleja, ha grandes tenpos que hé muj fraque e doente e porla dita fraquen e doença hé tornado a grande proueza”

Roi García, canon of said church, has been weak and sick for a long time and, because of said weakness and sickness, he has fall into a great poverty

“qu'as leises fá-nas os ricos e pra seu proveito as fan; a casta do rico engorda, sempre a nosa fraca está, e s'un fraco pouco pode, todos xuntos poderán, pois pra quen manda n'é o mesmo quen pide como quen dá; ―A fraquén do entendemento é a pior de cantas hai; ¡Descantiá que necesita máis cultura a nosa cras! Si moito tempo que perde, o empregara en estudiar o obreiro, fose nas leises, ou nos adiantos que hai nas artes do seu ofíceo, abofé ganara máis”

"Because the rich make the laws for their profit; the lineage of the rich fattens, ours is always skinny, but if a slim one can't do nothing, everyone together can, because for the one giving orders it is not the same who gives and who asks"; "The weakness of the thought is the worst there it is; of course, our class needs more culture! If the worker would use in studying (maybe laws, or the advances made in the knowledge of his job) the much time he losses, then for sure he would gain more.

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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