panne – French noun declension

French noun forms of panne

Noun: panne
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fpanne
Plural fpannes

Sample Sentences

  • J’ai ainsi vécu seul, sans personne avec qui parler véritablement, jusqu’à une panne dans le désert du Sahara, il y a six ans. Quelque chose s’était cassé dans mon moteur. Et comme je n'avais avec moi ni mécanicien, ni passagers, je me préparai à essayer de réussir, tout seul, une réparation difficile. (So I lived alone, with no one to really talk to, until my plane broke down in the Sahara Desert six years prior. Something had broken in my engine. And since I had neither a mechanic nor any passengers with me, I was about to make the difficult repair all by myself.) [1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter II, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:]

Etymology

From Middle French panne, from Old French penne (“fur, especially for lining garments”), from Latin pinna (“feather”). The semantic trajectory was possibly influenced by a Frankish term with the same double-sense as Middle High German vëder (“fur; feather”). See: Latin Nouns 'pinna'.

Verbs referencing "panne"

Catalan Nouns pana, Galician Nouns pana, German Nouns Panne, English Nouns panne, Dutch Nouns panne, Italian Nouns panne, English Nouns pan-pan, Galician Nouns padia.

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