temps
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English [edit]
Noun [edit]
temps
- Plural form of temp
Verb [edit]
temps
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of temp.
Catalan [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /tɛmps/
Noun [edit]
temps m (plural temps)
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French temps and its variants, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stetch, string”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- (France) IPA: /tɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /tA~/
- (Quebec) IPA: /tã/, X-SAMPA: /ta~/
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Audio (Quebec) (file)
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- Homophones: tan, tans, tant, taon
Noun [edit]
temps m (plural temps)
- (uncountable) time (in general)
- je n'ai pas le temps de faire ça - I haven't got the time to do that
- il faut encore du temps - I need more time
- (uncountable) weather
- le temps n'est pas bon ici - the weather is no good here
- quel temps fait-il ? - how's the weather?
- (countable) tense (grammar)
- un temps composé - a compound tense
- un temps simple - a simple tense
- changez le temps du verbe - change the tense of the verb
Usage notes [edit]
To talk about the current weather, it is standard in French to use the third-person singular pronoun il.
- il fait beau - it's nice weather
- il fait mauvais - it's bad weather
- il faisait froid - it was cold
- j'espère qu'il ne pleuvra pas demain - I hope it won't be raining tomorrow
- il neige - it's snowing
Derived terms [edit]
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See also [edit]
Guernésiais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French temps, from Latin tempus.
Noun [edit]
temps m (plural temps)
Jèrriais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French temps, from Latin tempus.
Noun [edit]
temps m (plural temps)
Old French [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin tempus
Noun [edit]
temps m (oblique plural temps, nominative singular temps, nominative plural temps)
Old Provençal [edit]
Noun [edit]
temps m (oblique plural temps, nominative singular temps, nominative plural temps)
- Alternative form of tems.
Romansch [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin tempus.
Noun [edit]
temps m
Related terms [edit]
Categories:
- English plurals
- English third-person singular forms
- Catalan nouns
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French plurals
- French countable nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- fr:Weather
- Guernésiais terms derived from Old French
- Guernésiais terms derived from Latin
- Guernésiais nouns
- Guernésiais plurals
- Jèrriais terms derived from Old French
- Jèrriais terms derived from Latin
- Jèrriais nouns
- Jèrriais plurals
- roa-jer:Grammar
- roa-jer:Weather
- roa-jer:Time
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Old Provençal nouns
- Old Provençal masculine nouns
- Old Provençal alternative forms
- Romansch terms derived from Latin
- Romansch nouns
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