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Yuppysea · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 21

Kobe Bryant scored 51 points, but the Suns got 25 from Steve Nash en route to their 50th win of the season.

I don't know the word "en" exactlly mean what,can you help me?

THANK Y
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KazAV · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:37 am Post subject:

Hi there.

It is a French phrase "en route" which means "on the way to" doing or achieving something.

Hope this helps.

Yuppysea · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 21

can you help me explain"fantasy studs"(also from today's nba news?
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Harmony · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 140

Hi Yuppysea,

I can see why you are confused! En is not a word in itself. It is a part of en route which comes from the French language. A similar example is en masse.

en route (adverb) - on the way to or from somewhere

The ambulance is en route to the hospital.

En route from New York to Boston, the bus crashed into a stalled car.

The call came from a flight en route from Tokyo to Sydney.

We stayed there en route for London.

Why don't we stop for lunch en route?

> > >

en masse (adverb) - in one group or body; all together

The protesters marched en masse to the capitol.

If people do something en masse, they do it together.

The management team resigned en masse.

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Of course you are always welcome to ask for definitions here, but you may also find it helpful to know some of the best places on the internet to look for the meanings of words:

http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.ldoceonline.com/

Harmony Very Happy

PS KazAV - I'm sorry. I didn't see your reply. Embarassed

Yuppysea · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 21

Thank you,now I have master the phrase and the internet addresses you give me is rather good which have a larger word bank than the Kingsoft I used to look for
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