Adjective: plein
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | plein |
| Singular f. | pleine |
| Plural m. | pleins |
| Plural f. | pleines |
Sample Sentences
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La voiture est pleine. (The car is full.)
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C'est plein de légendes. (It's full of stories)
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Il y a plein de choses à faire. (There are plenty of things to do.)
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en plein match ((right) in the middle of a match)
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en plein concert (mid-concert)
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en plein essor (on the rise)
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en pleine attaque (mid-attack)
Adjectives inflected like plein
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 plein, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Compare Catalan ple; Italian pieno; Portuguese cheio; Romanian plin; Sardinian prenu; Spanish lleno; English plene, full. See: Latin Adjectives '
plēnus', Catalan Adjectives '
ple', Italian Adjectives '
pieno', Portuguese Adjectives '
cheio', Romanian Adjectives '
plin', Spanish Adjectives '
lleno'.
Verbs referencing "plein"
Italian Adjectives
pieno.
Translations