copain – French noun declension

French noun forms of copain

Noun: copain
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mcopain
Singular fcopine
Plural mcopains

Sample Sentences

  • 2019, Christine Genet & Estelle Wallon, Psychothérapie de l'attachement
  • […] [On] a quatre façons de se comporter quand on est stressé ou inquiet. […] La deuxième façon est de se débrouiller tout seul. On ne dit pas ou pas beaucoup ce dont on a besoin, on ne montre pas trop ce qu'on ressent aux gens qui pourraient nous aider. […] C'est parfois difficile de calmer ses colères, de trouver une solution aux problèmes avec les parents, les copains.
  • There are four ways in which people behave when they are stressed or worried. […] The second way is to try to manage on one's own; to say nothing, or very little, about what one needs, and not to show much of what one is feeling to the people who could help. […] It is sometimes difficult to subdue one's anger and find a solution to problems with parents and friends.
  • Lorsque les copains se retrouvaient au café du coin, pour boire une bière, taquiner le flipper ou le baby-foot, il n'était accepté que parce qu'il régalait.
  • When the friends met up in the local café, to drink a beer and have a go on the pinball machine, or a game of table football, he was only tolerated because he was paying.

Nouns inflected like copain

copain,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.?
8. Latin pānis
9. Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
10. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
11. Latin -ō
12. Proto-West Germanic *gahlaibōcalq.
13. Latin compāniō
14. Old French compaing
15. French copain
16. # Inherited from Old French compaing, compain m, from Late Latin compāniō m (nominative form) (compare also Italian compagno m), from com- + pānis m, literally “with-bread”, a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a translation of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from *hlaib m (“loaf, bread”). See also compagnon m, from the accusative form of the same Late Latin term compāniōnem, whence English companion.
17. # The sense of 'boyfriend' is by ellipsis of petit copain. See: Italian Nouns 'compagno'.

Verbs referencing "copain"

English Nouns companion.

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