manière

manner, way

“une autre manière de vivre” — another way of living

Related: bonnes manières, de manière générale, de manière que, de toute manière, employer la manière forte, en aucune manière, faire des manières, manière criblée, manière noire

Inherited from Middle French maniere, from Old French maniere, meniere, manere, itself either from a Vulgar Latin *manāria, from feminine of Latin manuārius (“belonging to the hand”), or from the Old French masculine manier, itself from the same source. Compare Occitan manièra; Catalan and Spanish manera; Portuguese maneira.

somewhat, kinda, sorta, a bit, a little

“Alle est manière tchaque drette asteur.” — She's kind of drunk right now.

Inherited from Middle French maniere, from Old French maniere, meniere, manere, itself either from a Vulgar Latin *manāria, from feminine of Latin manuārius (“belonging to the hand”), or from the Old French masculine manier, itself from the same source. Compare Occitan manièra; Catalan and Spanish manera; Portuguese maneira.