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/ma.lø.ʁø/

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Translation

unhappy, unfortunate

Word origin

From mal ('badly') and the old noun heur ('luck, fortune'), from Latin augurium ('omen, augury'), with the adjective suffix -eux. The same heur survives in bonheur and heureux.

Origin
Latin
Root
augurium
English cognates
augury, augur

Grammar

Femininemalheureuse
Masc pluralmalheureux
Fem pluralmalheureuses

Examples

l' ' .

He has looked unhappy since she left.

, .

It was an unfortunate choice, but nobody could have known.

.

One unfortunate miscalculation cost them the match.

.

Do not be unhappy over so little.

tarmac.

The unfortunate passengers waited six hours on the tarmac.

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This word is part of lesson 35.