glas
Meanings
Noun
1. bell (funeral)
2. death knell (omen) (figuratively)
Examples5
Pour qui le glas sonne-t-il ?
For whom do the bells toll?
Leur glas a sonné.
Their end has come.
Son glas a sonné.
His end has come.
Cela sonnerait le glas de beaucoup d'entreprises industrielles.
That would sound the death knell for many industrial undertakings.
Le datif sonne le glas du génitif.
Dative spells the death of the genitive.