Avec
Avec is a French preposition meaning "with." It introduces relationships of accompaniment, instrument or means, and, more broadly, association or manner. In usage, avec governs the noun or pronoun that follows it and typically does not contract with articles.
For accompaniment, avec denotes that someone or something is present together with another person or group.
As a means or instrument, avec expresses the tool or method used to perform an action. Examples
Etymology traces avec to Old French, and it is cognate with the word for “with” found in
In contrast to other French prepositions, avec is flexible across several semantic fields—accompaniment, instrument, and manner—making