promesse – French noun declension

French noun forms of promesse

Noun: promesse
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fpromesse
Plural fpromesses

Sample Sentences

  • manquer à sa promesse (to break one's promise (quite formal))
  • Une promesse partiellement tenue est une promesse entièrement trahie. (A partially-kept promise is a fully-broken one.)
  • Je fais la promesse de ne plus croire en ce qui me ment / Ne plus me nier dans ma souffrance (I promise to stop believing in things that deceive me / To no longer deny myself in my suffering) [2013, Zaz, Je rentre:]

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”). See: Latin Nouns 'prōmissum'.

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