Adjective: second
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | second |
| Singular f. | seconde |
| Plural m. | seconds |
| Plural f. | secondes |
Sample Sentences
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la Seconde Guerre mondiale (Second World War)
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une seconde possibilité (a second possibility, another possibility)
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« Chiquita! Chiquita! » À la seconde appellation, une fillette maigre et hâve […] s'avança vers Agostin. ("Chiquita! Chiquita!" At the second call, a thin and emaciated little girl […] came up to Agostin) [1863, Théophile Gautier, Le Capitain Fracasse:]
Adjectives inflected like second
indifférent,
cohérent,
aspérifolié,
serein,
seyant,
second,
babillard,
savant,
satané,
satiné,
saturé,
défraîchi,
spaghettifié,
saoudi,
salaud,
salant,
sciant,
schleu,
évanescent,
écartelé, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French secunt, second, segont, borrowed as a semi-learned term from Latin secundus (“second”); related to sequi (“follow”). Doublet of son (“bran”), which was inherited. See: Latin Adjectives '
secundus'.
Verbs referencing "second"
Romanian Adjectives
secund.
Translations