sans

Inherited from Old French sans, senz, sens, from Latin sine conflated with absentia in the sense "without". Cognates include Spanish sin, Portuguese sem, Italian senza, Catalan sens, sense.

Cognate with Spanish

sin

Cognate with Portuguese

sem

Cognate with Catalan

sens

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Sentences

Je sens comme une libération qui me laisse sans forces .

I feel like a release that leaves me without strength.

Nous serons , là encore , simplement informés par un rapport sans pouvoir en discuter .

Here again, we will simply be informed by a report without being able to discuss it.

Cet étranger , sans coffre-fort , avait son
🔉

or

dans un portefeuille , simplement fermé de rubans .

This stranger, without a safe, had his gold in a wallet, simply closed with ribbons.

Je marche sans fatigue , je m’arrête sans avoir besoin de repos !

I walk without fatigue, I stop without needing rest!

Les personnages sont tous , sans exception , des animaux anthropomorphiques .

The characters are all, without exception, anthropomorphic animals.

La transformation physique , sans doute déterminait le changement moral .

Physical transformation, no doubt, determined moral change.

Les téléspectateurs peuvent jouer sans inscription préalable en appelant directement par téléphone
☎️

.

Viewers can play without prior registration by calling directly by phone.

Nicolas Demorand doit débattre de la lueur sans donner l'alerte.

Nicolas Demorand must debate the glow without giving the alert.

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sans

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɑ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin

sine