Noun: je ne sais quoi
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | je ne sais quoi |
Sample Sentences
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Si tu l'as, tu l'as, Ella elle l'a / Ce je ne sais quoi / Que d'autres n'ont pas (If you have it, you have it, Ella she has it. This I don't know what. That the others don't have.) [1987, Michel Berger, “Ella, elle l'a”, in Babacar, performed by France Gall:]
Nouns inflected like je ne sais quoi
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Literally, “I don't know what”.
Verbs referencing "je ne sais quoi"
English Nouns
je ne sais quoi.
Translations