Polyglot Dictionary

année

/a.ne/

la noun A1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les années

Meaning

  1. year

    • Bonne année!

      Happy new year!

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

an

année is used to emphasize duration, like "toute l'année," all year long; an is used with numbers, like "j'ai vingt ans," I am twenty years old — a useful grammatical distinction.

Similar in other languages

German

Jahr

Jahr is the German word for the same thing — both mean "year."

Spanish

año

año is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "year."

Portuguese

ano

ano is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "year."

Practice

1 What does année mean?

2 Fill the gap: Bonne ___!

3 Which fingerprint chart matches année?

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