grammaire
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French grammaire, from Old French grammère, itself from Latin grammatica.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
grammaire f (plural grammaires)
- (uncountable) grammar (the study of the morphological and syntactic rules of a language)
- La grammaire française est très complexe.
- French grammar is very complex
- a grammar textbook
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: gramer
Further reading edit
- “grammaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Noun edit
grammaire f (plural grammaires)
- 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