nègre – French noun declension

French noun forms of nègre

Noun: nègre
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mnègre
Singular fnégresse
Plural mnègres

Sample Sentences

  • un nègre littéraire
  • Et "nègre" veut pas dire "nigger," c’est pas un mot vilain. C’est juste dire que c’est un homme de couleur. Un noir. Tu vas dire "un nègre," ou "une négresse," et c’est pas une insulte. (And "nègre" doesn’t mean “nigger,” it’s not an ugly word. It’s just to say that someone is a man of color. A black man. You’ll say a "nègre," or a "négresse," and it’s not an insult.) [2010, Albert Valdman, et al., Dictionary of Louisiana French as Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities, page 651:]
  • Les nègres ont les cheveux crottés. (Black people have kinky hair.) [2010, Valdman, et al., Dictionary of Louisiana French, page 175:]

Nouns inflected like nègre

nègre,

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French nègre, from Spanish negro or Portuguese negro, itself from Latin niger. Doublet of noir (“black”). See: Spanish Nouns 'negro', Portuguese Nouns 'negro', Latin Nouns 'niger'.

Verbs referencing "nègre"

Danish Nouns neger, Dutch Nouns neger, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns neger, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns neger, Swedish Nouns neger, Icelandic Nouns negri, German Nouns Neger, Hungarian Nouns néger, Russian Nouns негр.

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