encombrant
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]encombrant (feminine encombrante, masculine plural encombrants, feminine plural encombrantes)
- cumbersome, heavy, bulky
- 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter II, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:
- Non ! Non ! Je ne veux pas d’un éléphant dans un boa. Un boa c’est très dangereux, et un éléphant c’est très encombrant. Chez moi c’est tout petit. J’ai besoin d’un mouton. Dessine-moi un mouton.
- No! No! I don’t want an elephant in a boa constrictor. Boa constrictors are very dangerous, and elephants are very cumbersome. My home is very small. I need a sheep. Draw me a sheep.
Participle
[edit]encombrant
Further reading
[edit]- “encombrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012