Noun: vague
Gender: f
m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | vague |
| Singular f | vague |
| Plural m | vagues |
| Plural f | vagues |
Sample Sentences
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Un peu comme un bateau qui trouve son équilibre entre les vagues et le chaos (A little like a boat that finds its equilibrium between waves and chaos) [2014, Indila, Comme un bateau:]
Nouns inflected like vague
fétichiste,
modérantiste,
odontologiste,
fiduciaire,
cryptanalyste,
selfie,
neurologiste,
Sud-Est-Asiatique,
acridophage,
schizo,
motoneigiste,
bolchévique,
urbaniste,
activiste,
phalliste,
acrostiche,
électrosensible,
humaniste,
aromathérapeute,
œconomiste, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French vague, from Old French vague (“movement on the surface of a liquid, ripple”), from Old Norse vágr (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
2. Cognate with Swedish våg (“wave”), Middle Dutch waeghe, wage (“wave”), Old High German wāge (“wave”), Old English wǣg (“wave, billow, motion, flood”). More at waw, wave. See: Old Norse Nouns '
vágr', Swedish Nouns '
våg'.
Verbs referencing "vague"
English Nouns
wave, English Nouns
waw, Swedish Nouns
våg, Asturian Nouns
vagamar.
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