parole – French noun declension

French noun forms of parole

Noun: parole
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fparole
Plural fparoles

Sample Sentences

  • la parole et l'écriture (speech and writing)
  • perdre la parole / perdre l'usage de la parole (to lose one's ability to speak)
  • avoir la parole facile (to speak easily, to be well-spoken)
  • Les animaux manquent la parole. (Animals lack speech)
  • Que tu es belle / Parole, parole, parole / Que tu es belle / Parole, parole, parole, parole, parole / Encore des paroles que tu semes au vent (You're so beautiful / speech, speech, speech / You're so beautiful / speech, speech, speech, speech, speech / More words that you sow in the wind) [1973, “Paroles… Paroles…”, Leo Chiosso, Giancarlo Del Re, Michaële (lyrics), Gianni Ferrio (music), performed by Dalida and Alain Delon:]
  • les paroles d'une chanson (the words of a song, lyrics of a song)
  • belles paroles (empty promise(s))
  • tenir parole (to keep one's word)
  • donner sa parole (to give one's word)
  • être fidèle à sa parole (to be true to one's word)
  • manquer à sa parole (to break one's word)
  • revenir sur sa parole (to go back on one's word)
  • croire sur parole (to take one's word)
  • Il tient parole. (He keeps his word.)
  • avoir la parole (to have the floor)
  • prendre la parole (to take the floor)
  • donner, céder, passer, ou laisser la parole à quelqu'un (to give someone the floor)
  • couper la parole à quelqu'un, ou lui ôter la parole (to cut someone off)
  • Le député a la parole. (The member has the floor.)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French parole, from Old French parole, inherited from Vulgar Latin *paraula, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; (later) speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabole and palabre. See: Latin Nouns 'parabola', Ancient Greek Nouns 'παραβολή'.

Verbs referencing "parole"

Latvian Nouns parole, Catalan Nouns paraula, Italian Nouns parola, Russian Nouns пароль, Ukrainian Nouns пароль, Polish Nouns parol, Bulgarian Nouns парола, Dutch Nouns parool, Romanian Nouns parolă, Swedish Nouns paroll, Greek Nouns παρόλα.

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