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#: ''Macy Gray a traversé '''bien''' des épreuves.''
#: ''Macy Gray a traversé '''bien''' des épreuves.''
#:: ''Macy Gray got through a lot of ordeals.''
#:: ''Macy Gray got through a lot of ordeals.''
# {{context|colloquial|lang=fr}} [[really]] (''used as an intensifier'')
#* ''Il est '''bien''' chiant, ce type''

====Usage notes====
This intensifier is used only with certains adjectives of negative connotation, such as {{term/t|fr|moche}}, {{term/t|fr|dégueu}}, {{term/t|fr|chiant}}.

====Synonyms====
* (''intensifier'') {{l|fr|vraiment}}

[[Category:French intensifiers]]


===Noun===
===Noun===

Revision as of 23:35, 4 February 2014

See also: biên, biển, biến, biện, and Bien.

Asturian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) bene.

Adverb

bien

  1. well

Danish

Noun

bien c

  1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of bi

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) bien, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) bene.

Pronunciation

Adverb

bien (comparative and superlative mieux)

  1. well
  2. indeed
  3. (+ de, des, du) a lot of
    Macy Gray a traversé bien des épreuves.
    Macy Gray got through a lot of ordeals.
  4. (deprecated template usage) (colloquial) really (used as an intensifier)
    • Il est bien chiant, ce type

Usage notes

This intensifier is used only with certains adjectives of negative connotation, such as Template:term/t, Template:term/t, Template:term/t.

Synonyms

Noun

bien m (plural biens)

  1. good as opposed to evil
  2. a commodity, a good
  3. a possession

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

bien

  1. Rōmaji transcription of びえん

Ladino

Adverb

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  1. well

Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) bene.

Pronunciation

Adverb

bien (comparative and superlative mielz or miex)

  1. well

Noun

bien oblique singular, m (oblique plural biens, nominative singular biens, nominative plural bien)

  1. possession; object of value
  2. good (as opposed to evil)

Descendants

Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) bene.

Pronunciation

Adverb

bien

  1. well
  2. properly
  3. willingly
  4. very

Adjective

bien m or f (masculine and feminine plural bienes)

  1. fine; OK

Noun

bien m (plural es)

  1. good (as opposed to evil)
  2. goodness
  3. welfare, benefit
  4. (plural) goods, property, possessions, assets, wealth, estate

See also

Volapük

Noun

bien (nominative plural biens)

  1. (male or female) bee

Declension

declension of bien
singular plural
nominative bien biens
genitive biena bienas
dative biene bienes
accusative bieni bienis
vocative 1 o bien! o biens!
predicative 2 bienu bienus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

Terms derived from bien "bee"

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See also

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