Noun: rien
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rien |
| Plural m | riens |
Sample Sentences
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petits riens – little things, little nothings
Nouns inflected like rien
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French rien, from Old French rien, from Latin rem (“thing”). Compare Catalan res (“nothing”) or Galician ren (“nothing”). See: Latin Nouns '
rēs', Catalan Nouns '
res'.
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