canard – French noun declension

French noun forms of canard

Noun: canard
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mcanard
Singular fcane
Plural mcanards

Sample Sentences

  • Le pauvre canard en eut assez de toutes ces railleries et il décida de s'en aller. (The poor duck had had enough of these taunts and he decided to leave.) [1917, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by André Theuriet, Le vilain petit canard:]
  • Aujourd'hui, le réseau de restaurants franchisés permet de faire connaître d'autres produits à base de canard au grand public et d'inspirer les gourmets et les cuisiniers amateurs. (Today, the network of franchised restaurants make it possible to promote other duck products to the wider public, and to inspire gourmets and amateur cooks.) [2005, Erik Verdonck, Foie gras & canard: Les meilleures recettes d'Upignac, page 12:]
  • Il est facile de distinguer le canard commun de la cane. Le mâle est plus gros que la femelle; il a aussi la voix plus forte et le plumage plus éclatant; mais le signe le plus saillant, c'est un assemblage de plusiers plumes retroussées que le mâle portes sur le croupion, à l'origine de la queue. Le canard et la cane sont propres à l'accouplement jusqu'à trois ou quatre ans; il faut les remplacer à cet âge par des sujest plus jeunes. Un canard suffit pour dix ou douze canes. (It's easy to distinguish the common drake from the hen. The male is larger than the female; he also has a stronger voice and more dazzling plumage; but the most salient sign is an assemblage of several upturned feathers that the male bears on the rump at the origin of the tail. The drake and the hen are fit for mating up to three or four years; you must replace them at that age for younger subjects. One drake suffices for ten or twelve hens.) [1836, M. Mattheu Bonafous, “Économie usuelle”, in De la culture des murier et de l'éducation des vers a soie, page 756:]
  • Ce serait être incomplet que de ne pas faire observer ici que Gaspard Hauser n'a jamais existé, pas plus que Clara Wendel et le brigand Schubry. Paris, la France et l'Europe ont cru à ces canards. (It would be incomplete not to mention here that Kaspar Hauser never existed, no more than Clara Wendel and the brigand Schubry. Paris, France, and Europe believed these canards.) [1844, Honoré de Balzac, “Monographie de la Presse parisienne”, in La grande ville nouveau tableau de Paris comique, critique et philosophique, page 146:]
  • Les canards eurent là une belle occasion de pondre des oeufs de toute couleur. (The tabloids found it a fine opportunity for hatching all sorts of hoaxes.) [1874, Jules Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, sourced from http://bilinguis.com/book/verne20k/fr/en/p1c1/:]
  • Le Canard enchaîné
  • Usant de gros titres, le canard met en garde la population. (Using headlines, the paper warns the population.) [2000, Gérard Valbert, La saison des armours, page 18:]
  • Duval ne répond pas, il a lu le canard, cette affaire de cambriole. (Duval doesn't respond, he read the paper, this affair of the burglary.) [2015, Jérémy Bouquin, Entrailles, page 6:]

Nouns inflected like canard

canard,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle French canard, from Old French canart, quanart (“duck”), from cane (“female duck", also "boat”), perhaps ultimately from the same imitative root as caner (“to cackle, prattle”) (although caner is attested later than canart) or from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Frankish *kanō (“boat, floating vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gan-, *gandʰ- (“vessel, tub”).
2. Compare Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse knǫrr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”). See: German Nouns 'Kahn', Old Norse Nouns 'kæna', Old Norse Nouns 'knǫrr', Old English Nouns 'cnearr', French Nouns 'canot'.

Verbs referencing "canard"

English Nouns canard, Dutch Nouns canard, German Nouns Ente, Finnish Nouns uutisankka, Polish Nouns kaczka dziennikarska, Bulgarian Nouns каня.

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