heureux
(Redirected from faire des heureux)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From heur (“luck”) + -eux. Compare Occitan aürós.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]heureux (feminine heureuse, masculine plural heureux, feminine plural heureuses)
- happy
- Synonym: content
- Antonym: malheureux
- glad [with de]
- lucky, fortunate
- good, excellent
- Synonym: bon
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Louisiana Creole: èrè
Noun
[edit]heureux m (plural heureux)
- happy person
- faire des heureux ― to make some people happy
- Ça ne va pas faire que des heureux ! ― It won't please everybody! It won't be to everyone's liking!
Further reading
[edit]- “heureux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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