Polyglot Dictionary

malédiction

/ma.le.dik.sjɔ̃/

la noun B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les malédictions

Meaning

  1. curse

    • La famille croit être frappée d'une malédiction.

      The family believes it is struck by a curse.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

sortilège

malédiction and sortilège are close synonyms for "curse"; sortilège also more broadly means "spell," magic in general.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

maldição

maldição is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "curse."

Practice

1 What does malédiction mean?

2 Fill the gap: La famille croit être frappée d'une ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches malédiction?

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