noun, masculine/ʒɑ̃ʁ/plural: genres
kind; style, look, type; genre; gender (of nouns); voice (of verbs)
“le genre humain” — the human race
From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Noun sense 6 is a semantic loan from English gender.
/ʒɑ̃ʁ/
kind; style, look, type; genre; gender (of nouns); voice (of verbs)
“le genre humain” — the human race
From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Noun sense 6 is a semantic loan from English gender.
like, kind of (approximation, softener, filler in informal speech); like (introducing a quotation, reaction, or imitation); for example, such as
“Y avait genre 200 personnes à la fête.” — There were like 200 people at the party.
From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Noun sense 6 is a semantic loan from English gender.
expresses disbelief, irony or dismissal; used ironically (≈ yeah right, as if, no way)
“— Il a tout compris à la réunion. — Genre !” — — He understood everything at the meeting. — Yeah right!
Related: BCBG, bon chic bon genre, cisgenre, en tous genres, en tout genre, études de genre, faire genre, faire mauvais genre, genré, genre humain
From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Noun sense 6 is a semantic loan from English gender.