Polyglot Dictionary

mauvais

/mo.vɛ/

adjective A1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

Adj Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. bad

Similar words

nuisible

Close synonyms for "harmful, bad."

médiocre

Close synonyms for "bad, mediocre."

nul

mauvais is the standard neutral word for "bad"; nul is the casual, informal version, often used by itself as an exclamation ("c'est nul !") to dismiss something as lame or useless.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

mau

mau is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "bad."

Practice

1 What does mauvais mean?

2 Which fingerprint chart matches mauvais?

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