mort

/mɔʁ/

noun #168 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

death, dead

Grammar

Gender

Examples

l' profondément affecté semaines.

The death of his dog deeply affected him for weeks.

bâtiment , allumée.

The building was completely dead at night, not a light on.

, ' .

They risked their lives, but no one died in that accident.

Mort est polysémique : nom féminin (la mort = death), adjectif (mort/morte = dead), et participe passé de mourir. La mort est le seul nom féminin dans cette liste. Les locutions à mort (to death, intensely) et mort de rire (literally dead with laughter - very funny) illustrent les emplois expressifs.

Mort-né (stillborn, doomed from the start), mort-vivant (zombie, undead), Fête des morts (Day of the Dead) - mort compose de nombreux mots. En avoir à mort de quelque chose (to be fed up to death with something) est très familier. Faire le mort (to play dead, to lie low) est une expression idiomatique.

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