gêne

Bedeutung

Noun

1. embarrassment
2. discomfort, inconvenience

Verb

1. inflection of gêner:
2. inflection of gêner:

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ʒɛn/

Etymologie

Inherited from Middle French gehenne (spelling influenced by géhenne), from Old French gehine (“punishment resulting from admission of guilt”), from gehir, geïr (“to admit, confess, acknowledge”), from Frankish *jehhjan (“to say, confess”), from Proto-Germanic *jehaną (“to affirm, say”), from Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak”).

Sätze

Oh ! monsieur , il ne me gêne pas !

Oh ! Sir, er stört mich nicht!