genre

genre

See also: Genre and genré

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos)). Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɑn.ɹə/

  • Audio (US)

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɒn.ɹə/

  • Audio (UK)

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• (nonstandard, francophonic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑnɚ/

Noun

genre (plural genres)

1. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

   The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.

   This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.

   The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

   2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:

   One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

Synonyms

• kind
• type
• class
• See also Thesaurus:class

Derived terms

• dramatic genre
• film genre
• genre-bending
• genre-busting
• genre fiction
• genre film
• genre-savvy
• genre studies
• literary genre
• macrogenre
• microgenre
• pre-genre
• subgenre
• theatrical genre

 

Related terms

• gender
• general
• generate
• genus

Translations

kind; type; sort

Afrikaans: genre Albanian: zhanr m, zhanri m (definite) Arabic: نَوْع فَنِّيّ‎ m (nawʿ fanniyy) (artistic), نَوْع أَدَبِيّ‎ m (nawʿ ʾadabiyy) (literary), نَوْع‎ (ar) m (nawʿ) Armenian: ժանր (hy) (žanr) Azerbaijani: janr Belarusian: жанр (be) m (žanr) Bulgarian: жанр (bg) m (žanr), вид (bg) m (vid) Catalan: gènere (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 風格／风格 (zh) (fēnggé), 類型／类型 (zh) (lèixíng) Czech: žánr (cs) m Danish: genre (da) Dutch: genre (nl) n Esperanto: ĝenro Estonian: žanr (et) Faroese: slag n, sjangra f Finnish: lajityyppi, genre (fi), tyylilaji (fi), laji (fi) French: genre (fr) m Galician: xénero (gl) m Georgian: ჟანრი (ka) (žanri) German: Genre (de) n, Gattung (de) f Greek: ύφος (el) n (ýfos) Hebrew: זָ׳נֶר \\ ז׳אנר‎ m (zháner) Hindi: विधा (hi) (vidhā) Hungarian: műfaj (hu) Ido: genero (io) Irish: seánra m Italian: genere (it) m Japanese: ジャンル (ja) (janru) Kazakh: жанр (janr) Korean: 장르 (ko) (jangneu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: janr (ku), şêwe (ku), cûn (ku), şêwaz (ku), çeşît (ku), tewr (ku) Kyrgyz: жанр (ky) (janr) Latin: genus (la) n Latvian: žanrs m Lithuanian: žanras (lt) m Macedonian: жанр m (žanr) Malay: genre Maori: momotuhinga Mongolian: Cyrillic: жанр (žanr) Norwegian: Bokmål: sjanger (no) m, genre (no) m Nynorsk: sjanger m, genre m Persian: ژانر‎ (fa) (žânr) Polish: gatunek (pl) m Portuguese: (Brazil) gênero (pt), (European) género (pt) m Romanian: gen (ro) n Russian: жанр (ru) m (žanr) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жанр m Roman: žanr (sh) m Slovak: žáner m Slovene: žanr (sl) m Spanish: género (es) m Swedish: genre (sv) c Tajik: жанр (žanr) Thai: ประเภท (th) (bprà-pêet), แนว (th) (nɛɛo) Turkmen: žanr Ukrainian: жанр m (žanr) Uzbek: janr (uz) Votic: žanri Yiddish: זשאַנער‎ m (zhaner)

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen

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Danish

Etymology

From French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɕɑŋʁɐ]

Noun

genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)

1. genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features

Inflection

Declension of genre

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	genre	genren	genrer	genrerne
genitive	genres	genrens	genrers	genrernes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒɑn.rə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: gen‧re

Noun

genre n (plural genres)

1. kind, type, genre

Anagrams

• enger, neger, regen

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Finnish

Etymology

From French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡenre/, [ˈɡe̞nre̞]
• Rhymes: -enre
• Syllabification^(key): gen‧re

Noun

genre

1. genre

Declension

Inflection of genre (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		genre	genret
genitive		genren	genrejen
partitive		genreä	genrejä
illative		genreen	genreihin
		singular	plural
nominative		genre	genret
accusative	nom.	genre	genret
	gen.	genren
genitive		genren	genrejen genreinrare
partitive		genreä	genrejä
inessive		genressä	genreissä
elative		genrestä	genreistä
illative		genreen	genreihin
adessive		genrellä	genreillä
ablative		genreltä	genreiltä
allative		genrelle	genreille
essive		genrenä	genreinä
translative		genreksi	genreiksi
instructive		—	genrein
abessive		genrettä	genreittä
comitative		—	genreineen

Possessive forms of genre (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	genreni	genremme
2nd person	genresi	genrenne
3rd person	genrensä

Synonyms

• lajityyppi

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French

Etymology

From Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis). Cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃ʁ/, (colloquial) /ʒɔʁ/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: genres
• Hyphenation: genre

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. kind

   Le genre humain.

   The human race

2. style

   Le genre dramatique.

   The dramatic genre

3. (grammar) gender (of nouns)

   Les mots français sont du genre masculin ou du genre féminin.

   French words are either masculine or feminine.

4. (grammar) voice (of verbs)
   • 1742, Nova elementa seu rudimenta linguae latinae, page 52:

     Huit choses arrivent au Verbe : Le Genre, le Mœuf, le Tems, la Personne, le Nombre, la Conjugaison, la Figure, ou la forme. Il y a cinq Genres de Verbes Personnels: l'Actif, le Passif, le Neutre, le Déponent & le Commun.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

5. gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc)

   Mon genre est non-binaire.

   My gender is non-binary.

6. (biology) genus

   Toute espèce vivante ou ayant vécu est rattachée à un genre, selon la nomenclature binominale introduite par Carl von Linné.

   Any living or extinct species has a genus, according to the binomial nomenclature introduced by Carl von Linné.

7. look, type

   Il essaie de se donner un genre.

   He tries to give himself a look.

8. (archaic, colloquial) the done thing

Derived terms

• BCBG, bon chic bon genre
• cisgenre, transgenre
• en tous genres
• en tout genre
• études de genre
• faire genre
• faire mauvais genre
• genre humain
• unique en son genre

Descendants

• → English: genre
• → Franco-Provençal: janro
• → Macedonian: жанр (žanr)
• → Persian: ژانر‎ (žânr)
• → Russian: жанр (žanr)
  • → Kazakh: жанр (janr)
  • → Turkmen: žanr
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: жанр
  • Latin: žanr
• → Ukrainian: жанр (žanr)

Particle

genre

1. (colloquial) like

   Je suis genre rarement énervé.

   I'm like rarely annoyed.

Further reading

• “genre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.

Anagrams

• gêner
• nègre
• règne, régné

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Norman

Etymology

From Latin genus, generis. Compare Ancient Greek γένος (génos)).

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. (grammar, etc.) gender

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French genre.

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)

1. alternative spelling of sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French genre.

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)

1. alternative spelling of sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ɧaŋɛɾ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

genre c

1. a genre

Declension

Declension of genre
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	genre	genren	genrer	genrerna
Genitive	genres	genrens	genrers	genrernas

Anagrams

• gener, green, neger