rentréen.f.
[ʁɑ̃.tʁe]
the September return to school, work and real life
In a sentence
- La rentrée, déjà ? Je veux encore être en vacances !Back to school already? I still want to be on holiday!
- La rentrée scolaire est fixée au premier septembre.The school year starts on the first of September.
France collectively restarts in early September: new notebooks, new resolutions, even a rentrée littéraire when hundreds of novels appear at once. It is January’s ambitious cousin.
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