terrible – French adjective declension

French adjective forms of terrible

Adjective: terrible

Hyphenation:
Singular m.terrible
Singular f.terrible
Plural m.terribles
Plural f.terribles

Sample Sentences

  • Mais à peine se vit-il en chemin qu’une pensée terrible l’assaillit, et telle, que peu s’en fallut qu’elle ne lui fît abandonner l’entreprise commencée. (But scarcely did he see himself on the road when a terrible thought assaulted him, and such that little was missing to make him abandon the enterprise he had started.) [1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^(fr.Wikisource), translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:]
  • Le concert était terrible. J'ai adoré. (The concert was terrific. I loved it.)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French terrible, from Old French terrible, from Latin terribilis. See: Latin Adjectives 'terribilis'.

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