peu

Inherited from Old French poi, from Latin paucus, from Proto-Italic *paukos, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few”, “little”). Compare Catalan poc, Italian poco, Portuguese pouco, Spanish poco. Cognate with English few.

Bookmark this

Improve your pronunciation

Write this word

Start learning Frans with learnfeliz.

Practice speaking and memorizing "peu" and many other words and sentences in Frans.

Go to our Frans course page

Notes

Sign in to write sticky notes

Sinne

Oui , un peu , merci .

Yes, a little, thank you.

Moins que peu , presque rien .

Less than a little, almost nothing.

Dany quitte alors la politique pour peu de temps
⌚

.

Dany then leaves politics for a short time.

En conséquence , il
👨

se vendit peu .

As a result, it sold little.

Il
👨

connaît peu son
🔉

père
👨‍👦

, qui est séparé de Bolonia.

He knows little about his father, who is separated from Bolonia.

Or

, ces formules y

sont peu applicables .

However, these formulas are not very applicable.

Wattie et Broome quittent peu après le groupe .

Wattie and Broome leave shortly after the group.

À

ce moment , il
👨

a

peu d'organisation économique ou politique centralisée sur
🔛

le territoire .

At this time, it has little centralized economic or political organization on the territory.

Continue with

Frans

peu

Betekenis (English)

Synonyms

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pø/

Etymology (English)

Inherited from Old French

poi

Inherited from Latyn

paucus

Cognate with Katalaans

poc

Cognate with Italiaans

poco

Cognate with Portugees

pouco

Cognate with Spaans