"ennui" meaning in French

See ennui in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɑ̃.nɥi/ Audio: Fr-ennui.ogg [France], LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-ennui.wav [France] (note: Somain) Forms: ennuis [plural]
Rhymes: -ɥi Etymology: Inherited from Old French enui, probably from the verb enuier. Etymology templates: {{etymon|fr|:inh|fro:enui<ety:from<enoiier<alt:enuier><unc>>>}} [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*en", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*en-", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "in-", "lang" : "la" }, { "gloss" : "hatred, loathing", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "hate", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₃ed-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*odjom", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "odium", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }, { "id" : "denominative", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "suf", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-ājō", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "suf", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-h₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-éh₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "intransitive verbs", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yéti", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-eh₂yéti", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" }, { "keyword_abbrev" : "influ.", "keyword_label" : "Influenced by", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-h₂ti", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "influence" } ], "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-āō", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ō", "lang" : "la", "pos" : "verb-forming suffix" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Late Latin", "term" : "inodiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la-lat" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "enoiier", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "enui", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "ennui", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" }" data-lang="fr" data-title="ennui">, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|enui|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French enui, {{inh+|fr|fro|enui}} Inherited from Old French enui Head templates: {{fr-noun|m|~}} ennui m (countable and uncountable, plural ennuis)
  1. (uncountable) boredom; lassitude Tags: masculine, uncountable
    Sense id: en-ennui-fr-noun-WMxP9oQ8 Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, French entries with etymon, French entries with incorrect language header, Emotions Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 46 10 38 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 43 5 49 3 Disambiguation of French entries with etymon: 91 9 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of Emotions: 87 13
  2. (countable) trouble, issue, annoyance Tags: countable, masculine
    Sense id: en-ennui-fr-noun-U5QaTqeD
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ennuyer, ennuyeux

Inflected forms

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          "english": "Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.",
          "ref": "1832, Honoré de Balzac, “Chapter 3”, in La Femme de Trente Ans:",
          "text": "Notre ennui, nos mœurs fades sont le résultat du système politique.",
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          "english": "\"We have been very anxious about you,\" said the father, who had followed his son, in spite of the wind. \"What has happened to make you so late ?\"\n \" Oh ! we've had nothing but troubles,\" she answered. \"To begin with, the roads are so bad that it has taken us nearly two hours to come from Bayeux. Then, at Arromanches, one of Malivoire's horses went lame and he couldn't let us have another. At one time I really thought we should have to stay with him all night. But the Doctor was kind enough to offer us his gig, and Martin here has driven us home.\"",
          "ref": "1883, Emile Zola, La joie de vivre:",
          "text": "— Mon Dieu ! nous étions d’une inquiétude ! dit le père qui avait suivi son fils, malgré le vent. Qu’est-il donc arrivé ?\n — Oh ! des ennuis tout le temps, expliqua-t-elle. D’abord, les chemins sont si mauvais, qu’il a fallu près de deux heures pour venir de Bayeux. Puis, à Arromanches, voilà qu’un cheval de Malivoire se casse une patte ; et il n’a pu nous en donner un autre, j’ai vu le moment qu’il nous faudrait coucher chez lui… Enfin, le docteur a eu l’obligeance de nous prêter son cabriolet. Ce brave Martin nous a conduites…",
          "translation": "\"We have been very anxious about you,\" said the father, who had followed his son, in spite of the wind. \"What has happened to make you so late ?\"\n \" Oh ! we've had nothing but troubles,\" she answered. \"To begin with, the roads are so bad that it has taken us nearly two hours to come from Bayeux. Then, at Arromanches, one of Malivoire's horses went lame and he couldn't let us have another. At one time I really thought we should have to stay with him all night. But the Doctor was kind enough to offer us his gig, and Martin here has driven us home.\"",
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    {
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        "1": "m",
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      },
      "expansion": "ennui m (countable and uncountable, plural ennuis)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ennuyer"
    },
    {
      "word": "ennuyeux"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with quotations",
        "French uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
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              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.",
          "ref": "1832, Honoré de Balzac, “Chapter 3”, in La Femme de Trente Ans:",
          "text": "Notre ennui, nos mœurs fades sont le résultat du système politique.",
          "translation": "Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "boredom; lassitude"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "boredom",
          "boredom"
        ],
        [
          "lassitude",
          "lassitude"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) boredom; lassitude"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French countable nouns",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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            [
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              184
            ]
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          "english": "\"We have been very anxious about you,\" said the father, who had followed his son, in spite of the wind. \"What has happened to make you so late ?\"\n \" Oh ! we've had nothing but troubles,\" she answered. \"To begin with, the roads are so bad that it has taken us nearly two hours to come from Bayeux. Then, at Arromanches, one of Malivoire's horses went lame and he couldn't let us have another. At one time I really thought we should have to stay with him all night. But the Doctor was kind enough to offer us his gig, and Martin here has driven us home.\"",
          "ref": "1883, Emile Zola, La joie de vivre:",
          "text": "— Mon Dieu ! nous étions d’une inquiétude ! dit le père qui avait suivi son fils, malgré le vent. Qu’est-il donc arrivé ?\n — Oh ! des ennuis tout le temps, expliqua-t-elle. D’abord, les chemins sont si mauvais, qu’il a fallu près de deux heures pour venir de Bayeux. Puis, à Arromanches, voilà qu’un cheval de Malivoire se casse une patte ; et il n’a pu nous en donner un autre, j’ai vu le moment qu’il nous faudrait coucher chez lui… Enfin, le docteur a eu l’obligeance de nous prêter son cabriolet. Ce brave Martin nous a conduites…",
          "translation": "\"We have been very anxious about you,\" said the father, who had followed his son, in spite of the wind. \"What has happened to make you so late ?\"\n \" Oh ! we've had nothing but troubles,\" she answered. \"To begin with, the roads are so bad that it has taken us nearly two hours to come from Bayeux. Then, at Arromanches, one of Malivoire's horses went lame and he couldn't let us have another. At one time I really thought we should have to stay with him all night. But the Doctor was kind enough to offer us his gig, and Martin here has driven us home.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "trouble, issue, annoyance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "issue",
          "issue"
        ],
        [
          "annoyance",
          "annoyance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) trouble, issue, annoyance"
      ],
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        "countable",
        "masculine"
      ]
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  ],
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      "tags": [
        "France"
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      "note": "Somain",
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "ennuie"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ennuient"
    },
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      "homophone": "ennuies"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ennuis"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɥi"
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  ],
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}

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