Adjective: bon
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | bon |
| Singular f. | bonne |
| Plural m. | bons |
| Plural f. | bonnes |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: bien
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Near-synonym: exact
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le bon usage (the correct usage)
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être dans la bonne direction (to be going the right way, to be heading the right way)
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Choisissez la bonne réponse. (Choose the correct response.)
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Cette meuf est putain de bonne ! (That chick is fine as hell!)
Adjectives inflected like bon
newtonien,
syméen,
syrien,
sadien,
samien,
salien,
icarien,
grenadin,
condorcétien,
slavon,
simien,
sidéen,
transpyrénéen,
renoirien,
xiphoïdien,
reaganien,
arawakien,
comorien,
hobbesien,
atloïdien, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *dwenos
4. Old Latin duenos
5. Old Latin duonus
6. Latin bonus
7. Old French bon
8. Middle French bon
9. French bon
10. Inherited from Middle French bon, from Old French bon, from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. See: Latin Adjectives '
bonus'.
Verbs referencing "bon"
Catalan Adjectives
bo, English Adjectives
bonzer, English Adjectives
bontodger.
Translations