depuis la nuit des temps
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24 characters
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | depuis la nuit des temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \də.pɥi la nɥi de tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Depuis toujours, ou depuis une époque si lointaine qu'on n'en a plus aucune trace.
- 2Depuis aussi longtemps qu'on s'en souvienne (à l'échelle individuelle).
- 3Depuis très longtemps.
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