Noun: tas
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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J'ai ainsi eu, au cours de ma vie, des tas de contacts avec des tas de gens sérieux. J'ai beaucoup vécu chez les grandes personnes. Je les ai vues de très près. Ça n'a pas trop amélioré mon opinion. (In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.) [1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter I, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:]
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Il faut apprendre à compter et faire des tas de dictées. (One has to learn to calculate and do heaps of dictations.) [1964, “Sacré Charlemagne”, Robert Gall (lyrics), Georges Liferman (music):]
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Il a demandé leur avis à des tas de gens ravis / Ravis, de donner leur avis sur la vie [2001, Alain Souchon, “La vie ne vaut rien”:]
Nouns inflected like tas
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. Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French tas (“heap, mass”), from Frankish *tas (“mass”), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“heap, mow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).
2. Akin to Middle Dutch tas, tasse (“heap, pile”) (Dutch tas), Middle Low German tas (“heap, stack of wheat or other grain, mow”), Old English tas (“heap, mow of corn or hay”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dais (“heap”), Scots dass, Welsh dâs. See: Dutch Nouns '
tas', Old English Nouns '
tas'.
Verbs referencing "tas"
Spanish Nouns
tas, Italian Nouns
taso.
Translations