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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

pas à pas

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pa a pa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Step-by-step/ˌstɛp.baɪˈstɛp/
adjectiveadverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2150 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Suivez ce tutoriel pas à pas pour créer votre site web."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Progressing through a series of small, successive stages or actions.

    "We followed a step-by-step guide to assemble the furniture."
As adverb
  1. 1

    Gradually, in a cautious, methodical, and sequential manner.

    "The instructor explained the complex equation step-by-step."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English noun 'step' (from Old English 'stæpe', meaning a pace or footprint), combined with the preposition 'by', forming a reduplicative prepositional phrase first recorded in the late 16th century. It evolved from denoting physical movement across consecutive paces to metaphorically describing a progressive, methodical progression through a task or process.

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