Noun: machine
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | machine |
| Plural f | machines |
Sample Sentences
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la machine bureaucratique
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faire machine arrière (to backpedal)
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machine à vapeur (steam engine)
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salle des machines (engine room)
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Ce type, c'est une vraie machine! (What a guy, he's a real machine!)
Nouns inflected like machine
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
Inherited from Middle French machine, borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Ancient Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́). Not to be confused with machin, which means "thing". See: Latin Nouns '
machina'.
Verbs referencing "machine"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
maskin, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
maskin, Swedish Nouns
maskin, Dutch Nouns
machine, Hungarian Nouns
masina, German Nouns
Maschine, Russian Nouns
машина, Romanian Nouns
mașină.
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