/bo/
Translation
beautiful, handsome (masculine)
Word origin
From Latin bellus ('pretty, handsome, fine'). The same root gave English 'beauty' and 'belle'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- bellus
- English cognates
- beauty, belle, embellish
Examples
aujourd'hui, promener.
It is a beautiful day today, let us go for a walk.
C' , .
It is a beautiful piece of work, you can be proud of it.
l'.
He has a beautiful smile that puts people at ease.
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What a beautiful gift you gave me for my birthday.
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Fine weather should return at the end of the week.
aujourd'hui .
The weather is really lovely today in the garden.
Used in
Stories
(10)Cuisiner ensemble
3 min read · Core 1000
La fête surprise
3 min read · Core 1000
Le bus manqué
3 min read · Core 1000
Le jour du travail
3 min read · Core 1000
Un après-midi de pluie
3 min read · Core 1000
Un matin au marché
3 min read · Core 1000
Le coffre du jardin
4 min read · Core 5000
Un message pour Hélène
4 min read · Core 1000
Un voyage difficile
4 min read · Core 1000
Une rencontre au marché
4 min read · Core 1000
Grammar articles
(10)French Adjective Agreement: Gender, Number, and Position Rules
French Adjective Position: Default, BAGS, and the Meaning Shifts
French Comparatives: plus, moins, aussi and the Three Irregulars
French Future Tense: Futur Proche, Futur Simple, and the Irregular Stems
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
French Impersonal Verbs: il y a, il faut, il fait and the Dummy Subject 'il'
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
The French Subjunctive After Doubt, Emotion and Opinion
French Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
French Word Order: SVO, the Object Pronoun Inversion, and Six Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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