grammaire

French

Etymology

From Middle French grammaire, from Old French grammère, itself from Latin grammatica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.mɛʁ/, /ɡʁam.mɛʁ/

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Noun

grammaire f (plural grammaires)

1. (uncountable) grammar (the study of the morphological and syntactic rules of a language)

   La grammaire française est très complexe.

   French grammar is very complex

2. a grammar textbook

Derived terms

• grammaire comparée
• grammaire de dépendance
• grammaire universelle
• grammairien

 

Related terms

• grammatical

Descendants

• → Turkish: gramer

Further reading

• “grammaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Noun

grammaire f (plural grammaires)

1. grammar
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 10:

     comme si nous cherchions d’y apprendre la grammaire

     As if we were trying to learn its grammar