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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French madame, from Old French ma dame (“my lady”). Doublet of madam and Madonna.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /məˈdæm/, /məˈdɑːm/, /ˈmæ.dəm/
- (US) IPA(key): /məˈdæm/, /məˈdɑm/, /mæˈdæm/, /mæˈdɑm/, /ˈmæ.dəm/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -æm, -ɑm, -ædəm
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]madame (plural madames or mesdames)
- Alternative form of madam
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- croque-madame
- grande madame
- Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
- Madame Jeanette
- Madame Tussaud's
- trou madame
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]madame
Declension
[edit]Inflection of madame (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | madame | madamet | |
genitive | madamen | madamejen | |
partitive | madamea | madameja | |
illative | madameen | madameihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | madame | madamet | |
accusative | nom. | madame | madamet |
gen. | madamen | ||
genitive | madamen | madamejen madamein rare | |
partitive | madamea | madameja | |
inessive | madamessa | madameissa | |
elative | madamesta | madameista | |
illative | madameen | madameihin | |
adessive | madamella | madameilla | |
ablative | madamelta | madameilta | |
allative | madamelle | madameille | |
essive | madamena | madameina | |
translative | madameksi | madameiksi | |
abessive | madametta | madameitta | |
instructive | — | madamein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “madame”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French ma dame (“my lady”), equivalent to ma + dame.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]madame f (plural mesdames)
- a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address
- Bonjour, madame, comment puis-je vous aider ?
- Hello, ma'am, how can I help you?
- Si vous êtes libre, pourriez-vous aider madame, s’il vous plaît?
- If you're free, could you help this lady, please?
- madam, Mrs. or Ms.; a title used with a woman's full name or surname, or (in childish language) her first name
- (in children's language, childish) lady, woman
- Dis merci à la madame.
- Say thank you to the lady.
- the female employer of a domestic servant
- 2020, Laure Stéphan, “« Ma Madame m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus me payer » : au Liban, le calvaire des domestiques éthiopiennes”, in Le Monde[2]:
- Mazaa, 23 ans, ancienne nourrice et femme de ménage, croix autour du cou, cache son visage. « Ma Madame (employeuse) m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus me payer. […] »
- Mazaa, 23 years old, former nanny and housekeeper, a cross around her neck, hides her face. "My madame (employer) told me they couldn't pay me anymore. […]"
Usage notes
[edit]- Unlike in English, Madame is frequently used without a name or article as a polite reference to a woman in the third person, notably in official registers:
- Madame s’est présentée à l’urgence à 18 h 12.
- The/This lady/The patient/Ms. [name] attended the emergency room at 6:12 p.m.
- Although un/le monsieur is used as a common noun to mean "a/the gentleman," using the word une/la madame to mean "a/the lady" is considered childish language. Instead, une/la dame is used.
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “madame”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]madame f
References
[edit]- ^ madame in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French madame; compare dame.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]madame (plural madames)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ma-dam(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]madame f (plural madames)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]madame f (plural madames)
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]madame c
- Synonym of fru (and French)
Declension
[edit]Declension of madame | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | madame | madamen | madamer | madamerna |
Genitive | madames | madamens | madamers | madamernas |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Old French
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/æm
- Rhymes:English/æm/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑm
- Rhymes:English/ɑm/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ædəm
- Rhymes:English/ædəm/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English polite terms
- English terms of address
- Finnish terms borrowed from French
- Finnish terms derived from French
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- French terms derived from Old French
- French compound terms
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French terms with usage examples
- French childish terms
- French terms with quotations
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/am
- Rhymes:Italian/am/2 syllables
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun forms
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle English terms of address
- enm:Female people
- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐmɨ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐmɨ/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃mi
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃mi/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns