tînmes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃m/

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Verb

tînmes

1. first-person plural past historic of tenir

Usage notes

• Tînmes, vînmes and their derivatives (such as soutînmes) are the only words in modern French in which a nasal vowel is followed by a nasal consonant within the same syllable.

Anagrams

• mentis, minets, misent