ne rien vouloir entendre
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24 characters
Language
French
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ne rien vouloir entendre is aFrenchverb. It means: Décider d’ignorer quelque chose, refuser de considérer les objections de quelqu’un. Pronounced \nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ ɑ̃.tɑ̃dʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne rien vouloir entendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ ɑ̃.tɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for ne rien vouloir entendre is 24 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ ɑ̃.tɑ̃dʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Décider d’ignorer quelque chose, refuser de considérer les objections de quelqu’un.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne rien vouloir entendre 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 ne rien vouloir entendre, spelled N-E- -R-I-E-N- -V-O-U-L-O-I-R- -E-N-T-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Décider d’ignorer quelque chose, refuser de considérer les objections de quelqu’un.
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