fille

French

Etymology

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fij/
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  • (Quebec) IPA(key): [fɪj]

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

  1. girl
    Ce ne sont pas toutes les filles qui aiment jouer avec les poupées.
    Not all girls like playing with dolls.
  2. daughter
    Je vous présente mes fils, Gérard-Marcel et Pierre-Vincent, et mes filles, Marie-Léonore et Jacqueline-Hélène.
    May I introduce you to my sons, Gérard-Marcel and Pierre-Vincent, and my daughters, Marie-Léonore and Jacqueline-Hélène.
  3. (slang) prostitute, wench
    Il buvait et courait les filles avant qu'il ne contracte la cirrhose et la blennorragie.
    He drank and consorted with hookers before contracting cirrhosis and gonorrhea.

Antonyms

Derived terms
Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Verb

fille

  1. present subjunctive analytic of fill

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fille fhille bhfille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

  1. daughter (female child)
  2. girl

Descendants

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) daughter
  2. (Jersey, Guernsey) girl

Coordinate terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse -filla

Noun

fille f or m (definite singular filla or fillen, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

  1. a rag

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse -filla

Noun

fille f (definite singular filla, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

  1. a rag

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fīlia(m).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.ʎə/

Noun

fille f (oblique plural filles, nominative singular fille, nominative plural filles)

  1. daughter (female child)
  2. girl

Descendants

Pennsylvania German

Etymology 1

Compare German füllen, Dutch vullen, English fill.

Verb

fille

  1. to fill
  2. to farce

Etymology 2

Verb

fille

  1. to foal

Saterland Frisian

Verb

fille

  1. to skin

Conjugation
Gruundfoarm: fille
Infinitive: tou fillen
Present tense Past tense
iek {fille wie fille iek fillde wie fillden
du fillst jie fille du filldest jie fillden
hie/ju/dät fillt jo fille hie/ju/dät fillde jo fillden
Present participle Imperative Auxiliary Past participle
fillend Singular: fill hääbe fillt
Plural: fill
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