Noun: vif
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | vif |
| Plural m | vifs |
Sample Sentences
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avoir les nerfs à vif (to be on edge)
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piquer au vif (to cut to the quick)
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entrer dans le vif du sujet (to get to the heart of the matter)
Nouns inflected like vif
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 vif, from Old French vif, from Latin vīvus (“alive, living”), from Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”). See: Latin Nouns '
vīvus'.
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