Noun: sens
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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le sens ultime de la vie (the ultimate meaning of life)
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Les mots ont un sens. (Words have meanings.)
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bon sens (common sense)
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Je préfère fréquenter ceux qui manquent de bon sens. (I prefer to associate with people who lack common sense.)
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voie à sens unique (one-way street, one-way road)
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en tous sens, dans tous les sens (in all directions)
Nouns inflected like sens
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
3. Proto-Italic *sentiō
4. Latin sentiō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
6. Proto-Italic *-tus
7. Latin -tus
8. Latin sēnsusbor.
9. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
10. Frankish *sinnbor.
11. Vulgar Latin *sennus
12. Old French sens
13. Middle French sens
14. French sens
15. Inherited from Middle French, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”), partly borrowed from Latin sēnsus (“sense, sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly from Frankish *sinn (“sense, reason, mental faculty, way, direction”) (via Vulgar Latin *sennus), from Proto-West Germanic *sinn (“mind, meaning”), particularly in the sense of "direction". Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). Compare also French assener (“to thrust out”), forcené (“maniac”). More at send. See: Latin Nouns '
sēnsus'.
Verbs referencing "sens"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
sans, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
sans, Swedish Nouns
sans.
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