négatif
See also: negatif
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin negātīvus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editnégatif (feminine négative, masculine plural négatifs, feminine plural négatives)
- negative
- Tu es tellement négatif !
- You are so negative!
- 2007, Amélie Nothomb, Ni d’Ève ni d’Adam [Neither Eve nor Adam] (non-fiction), Éditions Albin Michel:
- Si Rinri avait interrogé de façon négative, ce qui est courant dans ce pays compliqué, j’étais cuite. Je tentai de me rappeler les règles grammaticales nippones de réponse aux questions négatives, ce qui est aussi complexe que de retenir les pas du tango.
- If Rinri was asking in a negative way, which is commonplace in this complicated country, then I was being tricked. I tried to remember the Nipponese grammatical rules on responding to negative questions, which was as hard as keeping up with tango steps.
- (mathematics) negative or zero. nonpositive
- -24 est un nombre négatif.
- -24 is a negative number.
Antonyms
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editNoun
editnégatif m (plural négatifs)
- (photography) negative
- Le négatif permet d’imprimer une photographie sur une surface papier.
- The negative makes it possible to print a photograph on a paper surface.
Further reading
edit- “négatif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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