Polyglot Dictionary

nul

/nyl/

adjective A2

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

Adj Register Colloquial Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. bad, useless, hopeless (informal; nulle feminine)

Similar words

mauvais

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.

Practice

1 What does nul mean?

2 Fill the gap: Ce film était vraiment ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches nul?

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