idée – French noun declension

French noun forms of idée

Noun: idée
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fidée
Plural fidées

Sample Sentences

  • Tous les enfans ſont des athées; ils n'ont aucune idée de Dieu: ſont-ils donc criminels à cauſe de cette ignorance? (All children are born atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?) [1772, Paul-Henri Thiry (baron d') Holbach, Le Bon-Sens, ou, Idées Naturelles Opposées aux Idées Surnaturelles, London: Marc-Michel Rey, →LCCN, →OL, §30, page 22:]
  • Mourir pour des idées, c'est bien beau mais lesquelles ? (To die for ideas is all well and good, but which ones?) [1972, Georges Brassens, “Mourir pour des idées”, in Fernande:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”). See: Latin Nouns 'idea', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἰδέα'.

Verbs referencing "idée"

English Nouns idea, Romanian Nouns idee, English Nouns idée, German Nouns Idee, Irish Nouns idé, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns idé, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns idé, Swedish Nouns idé.

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