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What does 'À quelle heure est le petit-déjeuner ?' mean?

It means What time is breakfast?

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  1. What time is lunch?
  2. What time is breakfast? ✔
  3. Where is breakfast?

Why: Le petit-déjeuner is breakfast in France. Le déjeuner is lunch there, and où asks where.

Huh, didn't know that: In Canada and Belgium, the morning meal is simply called déjeuner.

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Why did the croissant go to the morning meal? It wanted to be the petit-dejeuner star.
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Answer: What time is breakfast?. Le petit-déjeuner is breakfast in France. Le déjeuner is lunch there, and où asks where.

  1. Le Robert, petit-déjeuner dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/petit-dejeuner
    Premier repas de la journée, pris le matin (au Canada, en Belgique, on dit déjeuner ).
    Checked 2026-10-12.

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