manœuvre – French noun declension

French noun forms of manœuvre

Noun: manœuvre
Gender: f m Hyphenation:
Singular mmanœuvre
Singular fmanœuvre
Plural mmanœuvres
Plural fmanœuvres

Sample Sentences

  • marge de manœuvre (elbow room, wiggle room)
  • fausse manœuvre (false move)
  • plaine des manœuvres

Etymology

From Old French manovre, from Medieval Latin manū opera (“handiwork”), a calque of Proto-West Germanic *handuwerk. Equivalent to main (“hand”) + œuvre (“work”).

Verbs referencing "manœuvre"

Dutch Nouns manoeuvre, Catalan Nouns maniobra, Spanish Nouns maniobra, Finnish Nouns manööveri, German Nouns Manöver, Portuguese Nouns manobra, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns manøver, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns manøver, Russian Nouns манёвр, Swedish Nouns manöver, Ukrainian Nouns маневр, Polish Nouns manewr, Romanian Nouns manevră, Romanian Nouns manoperă.

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