contemporain
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French contemporain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɔn.tɛm.poːˈrɛːn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: con‧tem‧po‧rain
- Rhymes: -ɛːn
Inflection
| Inflection of contemporain | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | contemporain | |||
| inflected | contemporaine | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | contemporain | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | contemporaine | ||
| n. sing. | contemporain | |||
| plural | contemporaine | |||
| definite | contemporaine | |||
| partitive | contemporains | |||
French
Etymology
From Latin contemporāneus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛ̃/
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Adjective
contemporain (feminine contemporaine, masculine plural contemporains, feminine plural contemporaines)
- current, of the current era
- contemporary (from the same time period)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: contemporain
Further reading
- “contemporain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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