Noun: flemme
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | flemme |
| Plural f | flemmes |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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J'ai la flemme de le faire. (I can't be bothered to do it.)
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Allons, quoi ! grande flemme lève-toi[…] (Let's go, huh! You big sloth, get up […]) [1917, Maurice Genevoix, Nuits de guerre [Nights of War], page 34:]
Nouns inflected like flemme
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
1. Borrowed from Italian flemma, from Latin phlegma (“phlegm”), one of the four bodily humours, thought to cause a sluggish and unemotional nature. First attested in the late 1700s.
2. Doublet of flegme. See: Italian Nouns '
flemma', Latin Nouns '
phlegma'.
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