drôle de

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʁol də/

Adjective

drôle de (plural drôles de)

(informal) funny, weird, strange, odd

Usage notes

This is not a noun phrase, but an adjective phrase: indeed, the gender of the article depends on that of the second noun: une drôle d'odeur (“a funny smell”), une drôle d'histoire, un drôle de bonhomme. Compare putain de for a similar behaviour, and espèce de.

Compare the shift in meaning between une histoire drôle (“a funny story, an amusing story”) and une drôle d'histoire (“a strange story, an odd tale”).

Derived terms

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