notre
See also: nôtre
French
Alternative forms
- nôtre (archaic or literary)
Etymology
From Old French nostre, Latin noster, nostrum, nostra(m), from Proto-Italic *nosteros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɔtʁ/
- (informal before a consonant) IPA(key): /nɔt/
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Determiner
notre (plural nos)
- (possessive) our
- C'est notre maison.
- It's our house.
- Notre Père, qui es aux cieux...
- Our Father, who art in Heaven...
Derived terms
- notredit
Related terms
Possessee | ||||||
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Singular | Plural | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | |||||
Possessor | Singular | First person | mon1 | ma | mes | |
Second person | ton1 | ta | tes | |||
Third person | son1 | sa | ses | |||
Plural | First person | notre | nos | |||
Second person | votre2 | vos2 | ||||
Third person | leur | leurs |
- 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
Further reading
- “notre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- étron, noter, ténor, toner, trône, trôné