sec – French adjective declension

French adjective forms of sec

Adjective: sec

Hyphenation:
Singular m.sec
Singular f.sèche
Plural m.secs
Plural f.sèches

Sample Sentences

  • des abricots secs (dried apricots)
  • du poisson sec (dried fish)
  • [I]l était de complexion robuste, maigre de corps, sec de visage, fort matineux et grand ami de la chasse. ([H]e was of a robust complexion, thin in the body, lean in the face, a very early riser and a friend of the hunt.) [1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter I:]
  • Désolé si j'ai été un peu sec. (Sorry if I was a bit curt.)

Adjectives inflected like sec

sec, demi-sec,

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sec, from Latin siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. See: Latin Adjectives 'siccus'.

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