Noun: vie
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | vie |
| Plural f | vies |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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l’apparition de la vie sur Terre (the appearance of life on Earth)
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La vie a drôlement augmenté depuis quelque temps : il ne me reste plus grand-chose quand j’ai payé tous les impôts. (The cost of living has really been going up lately: I don't have much left once I've paid all my taxes.)
Nouns inflected like vie
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 Old French vie, from older Old French viḍe, from Vulgar Latin vītam, from the accusative of Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā. See: Latin Nouns '
vīta'.
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