Today’s lesson focuses on the highly useful French adverbial phrase par rapport à, which translates directly to “by relation to” and means “compared to”, “in relation to” and “in comparison to”.
par rapport à
compared to, in relation to, in comparison to
Example sentences
This first sentence shows the most common usage: “compared to”.
Par rapport à son père, Martin est très grand.
Martin is very tall compared to his father.
For this second sentence, par rapport à translates to “in relation to”.
Où est Fontainebleau par rapport à Paris ?
Where is Fontainbleu in relation to Paris?
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