Noun: bienvenue
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bienvenue |
| Plural f | bienvenues |
Sample Sentences
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Mesdames et messieurs, je vous souhaite la bienvenue. (Ladies and gentlemen, I bid you welcome.)
Nouns inflected like bienvenue
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Literally, “well come”, from Old French bienvenue; compare also bienvenu (without the -e). Presumably a calque of an Old Frankish term, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a welcome guest or arrival”), from which many modern Germanic forms descend, as English welcome.
2. Interjection sense #2 is a recent semantic loan from English you're welcome found only in Canada; English “you’re welcome” dates from early 20th century, French Canadian usage correspondingly later. See: English Nouns '
welcome'.
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