Légèrement salé, comme une eau où se mêlent mer et rivière.
Slightly salty, as water mixed with seawater and freshwater
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La rivière devenait saumâtre là où elle rejoignait la mer. — The river turned brackish where it met the sea.
Toute cette négociation m'a laissé un goût amer dans la bouche. — The whole negotiation left a brackish taste in my mouth.
Nous ne pouvions pas boire l'eau saumâtre du puits. — We couldn't drink the brackish water from the well.
Ses excuses sonnaient amères et peu sincères. — His apology sounded brackish and insincere.
L'eau de cette lagune est-elle saumâtre ou douce ? — Is the water in this lagoon brackish or fresh?
Pourquoi chaque réunion avec lui finit-elle sur une note aussi amère ? — Why does every meeting with him end on such a brackish note?
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