"n'avoir ni queue ni tête" meaning in All languages combined

See n'avoir ni queue ni tête on Wiktionary

Verb [French]

IPA: /n‿a.vwaʁ ni kø ni tɛt/ Forms: n’ avoir ni queue ni tête [canonical]
Etymology: Literally, “to have neither tail nor head”; compare Danish finde hoved eller hale. Etymology templates: {{m-g|to have neither tail nor head}} “to have neither tail nor head”, {{lit|to have neither tail nor head}} Literally, “to have neither tail nor head”, {{cog|da|finde hoved eller hale}} Danish finde hoved eller hale Head templates: {{fr-verb}} n’avoir ni queue ni tête
  1. to make no sense, to have no rhyme or reason Synonyms: ne rimer à rien Related terms: sans queue ni tête
    Sense id: en-n'avoir_ni_queue_ni_tête-fr-verb-OTS0kiG2 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French negative polarity items

Download JSON data for n'avoir ni queue ni tête meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to have neither tail nor head"
      },
      "expansion": "“to have neither tail nor head”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to have neither tail nor head"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to have neither tail nor head”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "finde hoved eller hale"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish finde hoved eller hale",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to have neither tail nor head”; compare Danish finde hoved eller hale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "n’ avoir ni queue ni tête",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "n’avoir ni queue ni tête",
      "name": "fr-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French negative polarity items",
          "parents": [
            "Negative polarity items",
            "Terms by semantic function"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What you're saying doesn't make any sense.",
          "text": "Ce que tu dis n’a ni queue ni tête.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make no sense, to have no rhyme or reason"
      ],
      "id": "en-n'avoir_ni_queue_ni_tête-fr-verb-OTS0kiG2",
      "links": [
        [
          "make no sense",
          "make sense"
        ],
        [
          "rhyme or reason",
          "rhyme or reason"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "sans queue ni tête"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ne rimer à rien"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/n‿a.vwaʁ ni kø ni tɛt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "n'avoir ni queue ni tête"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to have neither tail nor head"
      },
      "expansion": "“to have neither tail nor head”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to have neither tail nor head"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to have neither tail nor head”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "finde hoved eller hale"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish finde hoved eller hale",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to have neither tail nor head”; compare Danish finde hoved eller hale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "n’ avoir ni queue ni tête",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "n’avoir ni queue ni tête",
      "name": "fr-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "sans queue ni tête"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French multiword terms",
        "French negative polarity items",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with usage examples",
        "French verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "What you're saying doesn't make any sense.",
          "text": "Ce que tu dis n’a ni queue ni tête.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make no sense, to have no rhyme or reason"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make no sense",
          "make sense"
        ],
        [
          "rhyme or reason",
          "rhyme or reason"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ne rimer à rien"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/n‿a.vwaʁ ni kø ni tɛt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "n'avoir ni queue ni tête"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.