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/amuʁ/
Translation
love
Word origin
From Latin amor ('love'), from amare ('to love'). The Occitan form amor influenced the spelling, which is why French kept the -our rather than developing the expected ameur.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- amor
- English cognates
- amorous, amateur
Grammar
Examples
L' lecture transmis - paternelle.
The love of reading was passed on to him by his paternal grandmother.
c' .
They met by chance and it became the great love of their lives.
passion tableaux.
She works with love and passion on each of her paintings.
' .
You never completely forget your first love.
l', , - soixante.
Make love, not war, they used to say in the sixties.
Amour est masculin au singulier (un grand amour, l'amour éternel) mais devient féminin au pluriel dans la langue poétique classique (les premières amours - a feminine plural surviving from older French). En usage contemporain courant, le pluriel prend le masculin : des amours compliqués.
Tomber amoureux/amoureuse (to fall in love) et être amoureux de (to be in love with) sont les constructions de base. Amour propre (self-esteem, pride) est une notion psychologique importante. Pour l'amour de Dieu ! (for the love of God!, for goodness' sake!) est une exclamation d'exaspération. Coup de foudre (love at first sight, literally a lightning bolt) est l'expression romantique par excellence.
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