faute – French noun declension

French noun forms of faute

Noun: faute
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular ffaute
Plural ffautes

Sample Sentences

  • une faute d'orthographe (a spelling mistake)
  • C'est la faute à pas de chance. (It’s bad luck’s fault.)
  • c'est de ma faute (I'm to blame)
  • c'est toujours la faute aux autres (other people are always to blame)
  • il rejette la faute sur son patron (he laid/put the blame on his boss)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita, feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō. Compare Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese falta. Doublet of faillite. Compare English fault and Spanish falta (“lack, shortage”). See: Latin Nouns 'falsus', English Nouns 'fault', Spanish Nouns 'falta'.

Verbs referencing "faute"

English Nouns fault, Catalan Nouns falta, Galician Nouns falta, Portuguese Nouns falta, Spanish Nouns falta.

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