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garage

garage

noun gah-RAHJ Rare
Home & Lifestyle Rooms

Origin: From French garage, from garer ('to shelter, to dock').

Also means

car park

Usage Note

Garage is an invariable masculine noun borrowed from French — il garage, i garage (plural unchanged). It refers both to the private garage attached to a house and to a commercial garage (repair shop or car park). In informal speech, box (also invariable and masculine) is common for a single private parking space in an apartment block.

Examples

"La macchina è nel garage."

Natural Translation

The car is in the garage.

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