bienvenue
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French bienvenue; literally bien (“well”) + venue (“come, coming”); compare also bienvenu (without the -e). Presumably a calque of an Old Frankish term, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwumô (“a welcome guest or arrival”), from which many modern Germanic forms descend, as English welcome.
Since “you’re welcome” is recent, due to influence from English; English “you’re welcome” dates from early 20th century, French usage correspondingly later.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bienvenue f (plural bienvenues)
Interjection[edit]
bienvenue
- welcome!
- Bienvenue à Paris!
- Welcome to Paris!
- Bienvenue à Paris!
- (Quebec) you're welcome (answer to thank you)
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Adjective[edit]
bienvenue
Further reading[edit]
- “bienvenue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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- French terms inherited from Old French
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- French compound words
- French terms calqued from Frankish
- French terms derived from Frankish
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- French terms derived from English
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- French lemmas
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