Noun: hirondelle
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | hirondelle |
| Plural f | hirondelles |
Sample Sentences
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1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".
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L'hirondelle et la fauvette, c'est la forêt qui me l'a dit / L'hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid (The swallow and the warbler, it's the forest that told me / The swallow and the warbler have already made their nests)
Nouns inflected like hirondelle
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
Borrowed from Old Occitan irondela, diminutive of irunda, ironda, ultimately from Latin hirundō. Replaced Old French arondelle, diminutive of aronde, from Latin hirundō (compare also harundō). See: Latin Nouns '
hirundō'.
Verbs referencing "hirondelle"
Italian Nouns
rondine, Romanian Nouns
rândunea, Catalan Nouns
oreneta.
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