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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French verai, from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Latin vērāx.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vrai (feminine vraie, masculine plural vrais, feminine plural vraies)
- true
- C’est vrai? ― Really?
Est-il vrai que vous ayez dit qu’il a besoin de notre aide ?- Is it true that you said he needs our help?
Il est vrai que l’on a dit cela.- It is true that we said that.
Il n’est pas vrai que l’on ait dit cela.- It is not true that we said that.
- real, proper
- Synonyms: réel, authentique
- Antonym: faux
- honest, sincere, truthful
- Synonyms: honnête, sincère
- 2012 (August 7), Manon Massé, quoted in: Judith Lussier, "Manon Massé : par-delà la moustache," Urbania:
On a attaché beaucoup d’importance à définir ce qu’est un vrai homme ou une vraie femme, j’ai hâte qu’on s’attarde à ce qu’est une femme vraie et un homme vrai.- So much importance has been placed on defining what makes someone a real man or a real woman; I'm looking forward to when we turn our attention to what makes a woman or a man true.
Noun
vrai m (plural vrais)
- truth
Adverb
vrai
- true; truly
Raconter vrai- to retell truly, without errors
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French verai, from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Latin vērāx.
Adjective
vrai m
- (Jersey, Guernsey) true
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Etymology 2
From a Germanic source; compare English wrack, Dutch wrak, German Wrack.
Noun
vrai m (uncountable)
- (Jersey) seaweed, vraic, wrack
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- bédaine f, bédanne f (“bladder wrack”)
- couèrte f (“pile of vraic”)
- courtîn
- crachet m, cracot m, crochet m (“channelled wrack; egg wrack, knotted wrack”)
- êcappillon m (“loose vraic”)
- fieilli, fieillu (“leafy”, adjective)
- graîsse f (“vraic used as fertilizer”)
- litchet, litchîn
- mèr
- plîse m (“grass-wrack, sea-wrack, eelgrass; small vraic washed up”)
- râtchet, râtchîn
- taillaison f (“vraicing season”)