duos
The English phrase "duos" is translated into French as duos.
The term duos refers to pairs of two people who perform together, typically in music. While duos describes these performing pairs, other terms can be used depending on the context: couple can denote a duo, binôme is used for professional partners working together and tandem is often used in an informal sense to describe a pair in activities or sports.
How does it change in a sentence?
duos is a masculine plural noun. The singular form is duo.
Did you know?
- The word duo is a loanword from Italian, which entered French to replace older terms for two-person musical compositions.
- In French, calling a musical duo a couple can be a social faux pas because couple almost exclusively implies a romantic relationship.
- You can use the word tandem to describe any two people working in perfect synchronization. This is a common colloquialism that goes far beyond the literal meaning of a two-person bicycle.
Examples in context
- Les chercheurs travaillent en binôme pour mener à bien leurs projetsThe researchers work in pairs to successfully conduct their projects
- Ils font du vélo en tandemThey ride a bicycle together
- On se forme en binôme pour ce projetWe are pairing up for this project
- Ils forment un duo incroyable sur scèneThey form an incredible duo on stage
- Ces duos de jazz sont incroyables.These jazz duos are incredible.
- Elle préfère les duos de piano.She prefers piano duos.
- Le festival présente de nouveaux duos.The festival is presenting new duos.
Example conversation
Lucas and Léa are discussing music at a concert hall.
- LucasTu aimes ces duos de violon ?Do you like these violin duos?
- LéaOui, ce sont mes duos préférés.Yes, they are my favorite duos.
- LucasLéa, est-ce qu'on voit d'autres duos ce soir ?Léa, are we seeing other duos tonight?
- LéaOui, il y a encore deux duos.Yes, there are still two duos.
