"comme" meaning in French

See comme in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Conjunction

IPA: /kɔm/, /kʌm/ [colloquial] Audio: Fr-comme.ogg
Etymology: From Middle French comme, from Old French come, from Late Latin quōmodo et. Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|frm|comme}} Middle French comme, {{inh|fr|fro|come}} Old French come, {{inh|fr|LL.|quōmodo et}} Late Latin quōmodo et Head templates: {{head|fr|conjunction}} comme
  1. as (in the role of, by way of)
    Sense id: en-comme-fr-conj-WTYdW~sI
  2. like, as
    Sense id: en-comme-fr-conj-aIl4-0qB
  3. such as
    Sense id: en-comme-fr-conj-qA7VA3Y0
  4. how
    Sense id: en-comme-fr-conj-gESq4fho
  5. because, as, since Synonyms: puisque, car
    Sense id: en-comme-fr-conj-GaM5JBR~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: c. [abbreviation]

Particle

IPA: /kɔm/, /kʌm/ [colloquial] Audio: Fr-comme.ogg
Etymology: From Middle French comme, from Old French come, from Late Latin quōmodo et. Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|frm|comme}} Middle French comme, {{inh|fr|fro|come}} Old French come, {{inh|fr|LL.|quōmodo et}} Late Latin quōmodo et Head templates: {{head|fr|particle}} comme
  1. (colloquial, Canada) like Tags: Canada, colloquial
    Sense id: en-comme-fr-particle-yrJkSCi8 Categories (other): Canadian French, French entries with incorrect language header, French particles, French similes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 13 0 0 7 0 81 Disambiguation of French particles: 8 0 0 14 0 78 Disambiguation of French similes: 8 0 0 14 0 78 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 6 0 0 11 0 83 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 0 0 11 0 83 Derived forms: combien, comme ça, comme ça se peut pas, comme ci comme ça, comme c’est pas permis, comme de raison, comme il se doit, comme marée en carême, comme par hasard, comme pas deux, comme pas un, comme prévu, comme qui dirait, comme quoi, comme si, comme tout, comment, tout comme
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: c. [abbreviation]

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.