Noun: langue
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | langue |
| Plural f | langues |
Sample Sentences
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la langue dans la bouche (the tongue in the mouth)
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la langue maternelle (the mother tongue, native language)
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une langue étrangère (a foreign language)
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Elle parle trois langues. (She speaks three languages.)
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faire parler la langue française (to make speak the French language)
Nouns inflected like langue
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French langue, from Old French langue, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”).
2. See cognates in regional languages in France: Champenois laingue, Norman laungue, Gallo lenghe, Picard lingue, Bourguignon laingue, Franco-Provençal lengoua, Occitan lenga, Corsican lingua. See: Latin Nouns '
lingua'.
Verbs referencing "langue"
English Nouns
langue, English Nouns
tongue, German Nouns
Zunge.
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