Adjective: chien
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | chien |
| Singular f. | chienne |
| Plural m. | chiens |
| Plural f. | chiennes |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like chien
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. Inherited from Middle French chien, from Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem (“dog”).
2. See cognates in regional languages in France : Bourguignon chein, Catalan ca, Corsican cane, cani, Franco-Provençal shin, tsin, Gallo chien, cun, qhun Norman quien, tchian, Occitan can, chin, Picard quien, tchien.
3. See cognates in Romance languages outside France : Aromanian cãni, Galician can, Italian cane, Lombard can, Ladin cian, Portuguese cão, Romanian câine, Sardinian cane, Sicilian cani, Spanish can. See: Galician Adjectives '
can', Italian Adjectives '
cane', Portuguese Adjectives '
cão'.
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