gentil – French adjective declension

French adjective forms of gentil

Adjective: gentil

Hyphenation:
Singular m.gentil
Singular f.gentille
Plural m.gentils
Plural f.gentilles

Sample Sentences

  • Elle reçut une petite tape gentille sur les fesses. (She received an amiable little slap on the buttocks.)
  • — Elle est fort gentille ! se disait-il; elle est fort gentille, cette femme du médecin ! De belles dents, les yeux noirs, le pied coquet, et de la tournure comme une Parisienne. D'où diable sort-elle ? (“She is very pretty,” he said to himself; “she is very pretty, this doctor’s wife. Fine teeth, black eyes, a dainty foot, a figure like a Parisienne's. Where the devil does she come from?) [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:]
  • C'est bien gentil tout ça, mais… (That's all very well, but...)
  • une gentille somme

Etymology

Inherited from Old French gentil, borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”). See: Latin Adjectives 'gentīlis'.

Verbs referencing "gentil"

German Adjectives gentil, English Adjectives genteel.

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