libre – French adjective declension

French adjective forms of libre

Adjective: libre

Hyphenation:
Singular m.libre
Singular f.libre
Plural m.libres
Plural f.libres

Sample Sentences

  • Un homme libre (a free man)
  • L'Homme eſt né libre, & par-tout il eſt dans les fers. (Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.) [1762, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social, page 2; English translation from G. D. H. Cole, transl., The Social Contract, 1913, page 5:]
  • […] l'homme est condamné à être libre. Condamné, parce qu'il ne s'est pas créé lui-même, et par ailleurs cependant libre, parce qu'une fois jeté dans le monde, il est responsable de tout ce qu'il fait. ([…] man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment that he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.) [1946, Jean-Paul Sartre, L'existentialisme est un humanisme^(https://psychaanalyse.com/pdf/L%20EXISTENTIALISME%20EST%20UN%20HUMANISME%20-%20JEAN-PAUL%20SARTRE%201970%20(14%20Pages%20-%20106%20Ko).pdf); English translation by Philip Mairet, transl., Existentialism is a Humanism, 1956:]
  • la voie est libre (the way is clear)
  • temps libre (free time)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French libre, from Old French libre, semi-learned form of livre (ca. 1200), from Latin līber (“free”), from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”). See: Latin Adjectives 'līber'.

Verbs referencing "libre"

Romanian Adjectives liber.

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