depuis
French
Etymology
From de + puis. From Middle French depuis, from Old French depuis. Compare Spanish después (“after”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /də.pɥi/
audio: (file)
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- Rhymes: -ɥi
Preposition
depuis
- since
- On habite ici depuis l’an 2000.
- We've lived here since the year 2000.
- since, ever since
- Depuis son arrivée à la tête du Barça, l’entraîneur catalan a tout gagné.
- Ever since he took the helm of Barça, the Catalan coach has won everything.
- (regarding time) for ~
- Je vis ici depuis trois ans.
- I've lived here for three years.
- (regarding time) for the last ~, over the past ~
- Le Marché Monétaire et Ses Crisis depuis Cinquante Ans
- The Money Market and Its Crisis over the Last Fifty Years
- from
- Le train part depuis Stockholm.
- The train leaves from Stockholm.
- 2020 September 6, “Etats-Unis : ‘J’ai mal quand je respire’, dit Jacob Blake depuis son lit d’hôpital” (“United States: ‘It hurts when I breathe’, says Jacob Blake from his hospital bed”), L’Express.
Derived terms
Adverb
depuis
- (informal) ever since, since then
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Synonym: depuis lors
See also
Further reading
- “depuis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French depuis.
Preposition
depuis
Descendants
- French: depuis
References
- depuis on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (depuis, supplement)
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