"facile" meaning in French

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Adjective

IPA: /fa.sil/ Audio: Fr-facile.ogg Forms: faciles [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin facilis (“easy”), from faciō (“to do, make”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|la|facilis|t=easy}} Borrowed from Latin facilis (“easy”) Head templates: {{fr-adj}} facile (plural faciles)
  1. easy, simple
    Sense id: en-facile-fr-adj-s8b~mqx-
  2. (derogatory, chiefly of women) easy, promiscuous (consenting readily to sex) Tags: derogatory
    Sense id: en-facile-fr-adj-RrmLeDry Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: avoir la gâchette facile, plus facile à dire qu’à faire Related terms: faire

Inflected forms

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          "english": "It is not easy to live with diabetes.",
          "text": "Il n’est pas facile de vivre avec le diabète.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "He is easy to understand.",
          "text": "Il est facile à comprendre.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "\"Certainly, it's not easy to be twenty years old in 2020,\" Frank Delvau conceded, picking up the expression used by Emmanuel Macron the day before.",
          "ref": "2020, “Couvre-feu : le désarroi des restaurateurs français”, in France 24:",
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      "word": "plus facile à dire qu’à faire"
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          "ref": "2020, “Couvre-feu : le désarroi des restaurateurs français”, in France 24:",
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