lieutenant – French noun declension

Noun: lieutenant
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	lieutenant
Singular f	lieutenante
Plural m	lieutenants

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like lieutenant

Nigérian, savant, soldat, publiant, Colombard, Auvergnat, Manitobain, Sahraoui, youpin, adjutant-chef, retraité, bien-pensant, plaisantin, bourrin, bougnat, viandard, survivant, Dominicain, coaccusé, bagnard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Univerbation of lieu tenant, literally “placeholder”, from tenir lieu (“to hold the place of someone, to act as a substitute for someone”).

Verbs referencing "lieutenant"

Spanish Nouns lugarteniente, Finnish Nouns luutnantti, Italian Nouns luogotenente, German Nouns Stellvertreter, Swedish Nouns löjtnant, Danish Nouns løjtnant, Russian Nouns лейтенант, Ukrainian Nouns лейтенант, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns løytnant, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns løytnant, Icelandic Nouns lautinant, Romanian Nouns leitenant, Faroese Nouns loytnantur.

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