mare – French noun declension

French noun forms of mare

Noun: mare
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fmare
Plural fmares

Sample Sentences

  • La cour allait en montant; plantée d'arbres symétriquement espacés, et le bruit gai d'un troupeau d'oies retentissait près de la mare. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]

Etymology

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Doublet of mer inherited from Latin. See: Old Norse Nouns 'marr'.

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