contemporain
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French contemporain.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
contemporain (not comparable)
- contemporary
- Synonym: contemporair
Inflection edit
Inflection of contemporain | ||||
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uninflected | contemporain | |||
inflected | contemporaine | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | contemporain | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | contemporaine | ||
n. sing. | contemporain | |||
plural | contemporaine | |||
definite | contemporaine | |||
partitive | contemporains |
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin contemporāneus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
contemporain (feminine contemporaine, masculine plural contemporains, feminine plural contemporaines)
- current, of the current era
- contemporary (from the same time period)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: contemporain
Further reading edit
- “contemporain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.