"chose" meaning in French

See chose in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʃoz/, /ʃoʊ̯z/ [Quebec] Audio: Fr-chose.ogg [France] Forms: choses [plural]
Rhymes: -oz Etymology: Inherited from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|chose|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French chose, {{inh+|fr|fro|chose}} Inherited from Old French chose, {{inh|fr|la|causa}} Latin causa, {{cog|it|cosa}} Italian cosa, {{cog|pt|coisa}} Portuguese coisa, {{cog|es|cosa}} Spanish cosa, {{doublet|fr|cause|notext=1}} cause Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} chose f (plural choses)
  1. thing Tags: feminine Synonyms: truc

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for chose meaning in French (3.9kB)

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      "expansion": "Italian cosa",
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    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese coisa",
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          "word": "à peu de choses près"
        },
        {
          "word": "autre chose"
        },
        {
          "word": "avant toutes choses"
        },
        {
          "word": "chose du passé"
        },
        {
          "word": "chose jugée"
        },
        {
          "word": "chose promise, chose due"
        },
        {
          "word": "chosisme"
        },
        {
          "word": "chosiste"
        },
        {
          "word": "c’est la moindre des choses"
        },
        {
          "word": "de deux choses l’une"
        },
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          "word": "état de choses"
        },
        {
          "word": "être porté sur la chose"
        },
        {
          "word": "faire la part des choses"
        },
        {
          "word": "par la force des choses"
        },
        {
          "word": "passer aux choses sérieuses"
        },
        {
          "word": "plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose"
        },
        {
          "word": "prendre les choses comme elles viennent"
        },
        {
          "word": "quelque chose"
        },
        {
          "word": "tout chose"
        },
        {
          "word": "toutes choses égales par ailleurs"
        },
        {
          "word": "toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin"
        },
        {
          "word": "voir le bon côté des choses"
        },
        {
          "word": "voir les choses en grand"
        }
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        {
          "english": "The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.",
          "ref": "1580, Michel de Montaigne, De la cruauté: Essais",
          "text": "Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.",
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      "ipa": "/ʃoʊ̯z/",
      "tags": [
        "Quebec"
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      "tags": [
        "France"
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      "text": "audio (France)"
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    {
      "word": "chose du passé"
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      "word": "chose jugée"
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      "word": "chose promise, chose due"
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      "word": "par la force des choses"
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      "word": "passer aux choses sérieuses"
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      "word": "plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose"
    },
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      "word": "prendre les choses comme elles viennent"
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      "word": "quelque chose"
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    {
      "word": "tout chose"
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      "word": "toutes choses égales par ailleurs"
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    {
      "word": "toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin"
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      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "cosa"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian cosa",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "coisa"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese coisa",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "cosa"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish cosa",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "cause",
        "notext": "1"
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  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "choses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "French doublets",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
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        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms derived from Latin",
        "French terms derived from Old French",
        "French terms inherited from Latin",
        "French terms inherited from Old French",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:French/oz",
        "Rhymes:French/oz/1 syllable"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.",
          "ref": "1580, Michel de Montaigne, De la cruauté: Essais",
          "text": "Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "thing"
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          "word": "truc"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ʃoz/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ʃoʊ̯z/",
      "tags": [
        "Quebec"
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oz"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Fr-chose.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France"
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      "text": "audio (France)"
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  "word": "chose"
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