eau – French noun declension

French noun forms of eau

Noun: eau
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular feau
Plural feaux

Sample Sentences

  • Il buvait un verre d’eau fraîche. (He drank a cool glass of water.)
  • L’eau de mer et l’eau de rivière n’ont pas la même teneur en sel et n’abritent donc pas les mêmes poissons. (Sea water and river water do not have the same salt content and thus do not harbor the same fish.)
  • L'alteration de l′eau du lac par l'effect des courants du fond vers la surface semble s'expliquer par le fait, que le courant à densité avait une temperature plus élevée que les couches inférieures et moyennes du lac. (The alteration of the lake's water by the effect of the current from the bottom to the surface seems to be explained by the fact that the density current had a higher temperature than the inferior and medium layers of the lake.) [1951, First Congress on Irrigation and Drainage. Transactions, volume 2, page 149:]
  • Si le vent dure, nous aurons de l’eau. (If the wind persists, we will have rain.)
  • L’eau se durcit par le froid et se vaporise par la chaleur. (Water hardens with cold and vaporises with heat.)
  • Le soir, ils se baignaient dans les eaux du lac Titicaca. (In the evening, they bathed in the waters of Lake Titicaca.)
  • Les vésicatoires font des ampoules pleines d’eau. (Vesicants make blisters full of fluid.)
  • L’eau m'en vint à la bouche. (That made my mouth water.)
  • Il s’est échauffé à courir, il est tout en eau. (He warmed up to run. He's all sweaty.)

Nouns inflected like eau

cheneau, eau, hachereau, aglandau, morte-eau, peau,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle French eau, eaue, from Old French ewe, euwe, egua (“water”), from Latin aqua (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”), related to Frankish *ahu ~ ahwā (“stream, water”). See also English ea (“watercourse, river”).
2. Cognates
3. See also Angevin ave, eive, ève, ieau, Aragonese augua, Aromanian apã, Asturian agua, Bourbonnais-Berrichon aïe, aigue, Bourguignon eâ, Burgundian eai, Catalan aigua, Champenois aive, ève, Corsican acqua, Franc-Comtois âve, Franco-Provençal aigva, égoua, éva, Friulian aghe, Galician auga, Gallo aèv, ève, iao, iau, Istro-Romanian åpe, Italian acqua, Ligurian ægoa, ægua, Lombard acqua, agua, aqua, Lorrain aoue, Megleno-Romanian apu, Neapolitan acqua, Norman iâo, Occitan aiga, aigue, Old English ēa (“flowing water, stream, river”), Orléanais iau, Picard iau, ieau, Piedmontese aqua, eva, Poitevin-Saintongeais ève, Portuguese água, Romanian apă, Sardinian abba, Sicilian acqua, eva, Spanish agua, Venetan acua, Walloon aiwe. See: Latin Nouns 'aqua', English Nouns 'ea', Asturian Nouns 'agua', Catalan Nouns 'aigua', Galician Nouns 'auga', Italian Nouns 'acqua', Old English Nouns 'ēa', Portuguese Nouns 'água', Romanian Nouns 'apă', Spanish Nouns 'agua'.

Verbs referencing "eau"

Spanish Nouns agua, Portuguese Nouns água, Catalan Nouns aigua.

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