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flotte

See also: Flotte, and flotté

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /flɔt/
  • Audio; “la flotte”:(file)

Etymology 1

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First attested in Old French as flote, likely from the same Germanic root as English float.

Noun

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flotte f (plural flottes)

  1. fleet
Descendants
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  • → Catalan: flota
  • → Galician: frota
  • → Italian: flotta
  • → Portuguese: frota
  • → Spanish: flota

Etymology 2

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Deverbal of flotter.

Noun

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flotte f (plural flottes)

  1. (colloquial) water
    La carte est tombée dans la flotte.
    The map fell in the water.
  2. (colloquial) rain
    Et allez! Encore de la flotte toute cette semaine!
    Come on! More rain this week!

Verb

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flotte

  1. inflection of flotter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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German

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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flotte

  1. inflection of flott:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

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Noun

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flotte f

  1. plural of flotta

Anagrams

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Adjective

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flotte

  1. definite singular of flott
  2. plural of flott

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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flotte

  1. definite singular of flott
  2. plural of flott

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse floti.

Noun

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flotte c

  1. raft

Declension

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Declension of flotte
nominative genitive
singular indefinite flotte flottes
definite flotten flottens
plural indefinite flottar flottars
definite flottarna flottarnas

Adjective

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flotte

  1. definite natural masculine singular of flott

References

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Anagrams

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