depuis la nuit des temps

/\də.pɥi la nɥi de tɑ̃\/ adv

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Language

French

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depuis la nuit des temps is anFrenchadv. It means: Depuis toujours, ou depuis une époque si lointaine qu'on n'en a plus aucune trace. Pronounced \də.pɥi la nɥi de tɑ̃\.

Key facts for depuis la nuit des temps
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Headworddepuis la nuit des temps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\də.pɥi la nɥi de tɑ̃\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

depuis la nuit des temps is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for depuis la nuit des temps is 24 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.pɥi la nɥi de tɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for depuis la nuit des temps in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is depuis la nuit des temps, spelled D-E-P-U-I-S- -L-A- -N-U-I-T- -D-E-S- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Depuis toujours, ou depuis une époque si lointaine qu'on n'en a plus aucune trace.
  2. 2
    Depuis aussi longtemps qu'on s'en souvienne (à l'échelle individuelle).
  3. 3
    Depuis très longtemps.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "depuis la nuit des temps"?
"depuis la nuit des temps" is spelled D-E-P-U-I-S- -L-A- -N-U-I-T- -D-E-S- -T-E-M-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \də.pɥi la nɥi de tɑ̃\.
What does "depuis la nuit des temps" mean?
As an adv, "depuis la nuit des temps" means: Depuis toujours, ou depuis une époque si lointaine qu'on n'en a plus aucune trace.
How do you pronounce "depuis la nuit des temps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "depuis la nuit des temps" is \də.pɥi la nɥi de tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.