Noun: soif
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | soif |
| Plural f | soifs |
Sample Sentences
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avoir soif (to be thirsty)
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faire soif (to be thirsty)
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garder une poire pour la soif (to save a bit of money for a rainy day, to keep a safety cushion)
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jusqu'à plus soif (until one is not thirsty anymore)
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on ne saurait faire boire un âne qui n'a pas soif (you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink)
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soif de savoir (thirst for knowledge, passion for learning)
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soif de pouvoir (lust for power)
Nouns inflected like soif
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. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰéyti
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰey-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
7. Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰéytis
8. Latin sitis
9. Old French seif
10. Old French soif
11. French soif
12. Inherited from Old French soif, from earlier seif, seit, from Latin sitis. The unetymological -f seems to have been inserted, following cases such as Old French noif (“snow”), possibly to avoid homophony with soit (“[may] it be”) and soi (“-self”). See: Latin Nouns '
sitis'.
Verbs referencing "soif"
Spanish Nouns
sed.
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