Level B1 (Intermediate)
The French Word of the Day is the commonly used adjective “sublime“, meaning magnificent or wonderful.
Meaning
Pronunciation with IPA
Example sentences
Word origin
Related lessons
Meaning
“Sublime” is a French adjective that means magnificent, great, or wonderful. It describes something of high quality or beauty.
Pronunciation
Example sentences
This first sentence uses penser de, meaning “to think of”. Students often confuse this with penser à + person (to think about a person). This lesson explains penser in detail. Oh là là has several translations including oh, wow, yikes!
Qu’est-ce que tu as pensé du concert ? Oh là là, c’était sublime !
What did you think of the concert? – Oh! It was wonderful!
Sublime can also be used in the context of beauty. For example, une beauté sublime (sublime beauty).
The verb assister à + event means “to attend” whereas assister + person means to help or to assist a person. Elle va mettre (she’s going to wear) is an example of the futur proche or “going to” tense.
Marie assiste à un mariage cet après-midi et elle va mettre une robe sublime !
Marie is attending a marriage this afternoon and she’s going to wear a magnificent dress.
Word origin
The Modern French sublime comes from sublimis (elevated, high, exalted, sublime) in Latin.
Related lessons and words to sublime
- Formidable (formidable, tremendous, wonderful)
- Beau, belle beautiful
- Magnifique magnificent, splendid
- Merveilleux marvelous, wonderful
- Splendide splendid, gorgeous
- Éblouissant dazzling, stunning
- Superbe superb, gorgeous
- Grandioses grandiose
- Majestueux majestic
