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-ée - French Suffix - French
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Suffix: ée
Type of suffix: nominal, verbal
Gender of words with suffix: usually feminine
The French suffix ée can be added to nouns or verbs to make new nouns and has a number of possible meanings.
1. A ___ful of something
une bouchée - mouthful
(from une bouche - mouth)
une cuillerée - spoonful
(from une cuillère - spoon)
une poignée - handful, fistful
(from un poing - fist)
2. Group or collective
la feuillée (archaic) - foliage
(from la feuille - leaf)
une maisonnée - household, family
(from une maison - house)
3. Purpose or result of an action
une couvée - brood, clutch
(from couver - to hatch)
une donnée - datum, piece of information
(from donner - to give)
la poussée - pressure, pushing, thrust
(from pousser - to push)
4. Location
une allée - avenue, walk, path
(from aller - to go)
une entrée - entrance
(from entrer - to enter)
5. Period of time (learn more)
une année - year
(from un an)
une journée - day
(from un jour)
6. Plant name
une cactée, une cactacée - cactus
une centaurée - centaury
une giroflée - wallflower
Note that the French suffix -ée is also the feminine singular form of the past participle of -er verbs |
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By Rekha, On - 2010-02-16 |
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