Genre - Wiktionary
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
Audio (US): (file)
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə/
Audio (UK): (file)
- (nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑnɚ/
Noun
[edit]genre (plural genres)
- A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century. This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time. The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
- 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
Synonyms
[edit]- kind
- type
- class
- See also Thesaurus:class
Derived terms
[edit]- cybergenre
- genre-bending
- genre-busting
- genrefication
- genre fiction
- genre film
- genrefy
- genreless
- genrelisation
- genrelization
- genre-savvy
- genre studies
- genric
- hallucinogenre
- macrogenre
- metagenre
- microgenre
- minigenre
- multigenre
- nongenre
- pre-genre
- pregenre
- sub-genre
- subgenre
- supergenre
Related terms
[edit]- gender
- general
- generate
- genus
Translations
[edit] kind; type; sort
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Verb
[edit]genre (third-person singular simple present genres, present participle genring or genreing, simple past and past participle genred)
- To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:genred.
Anagrams
[edit]- Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French genre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): [ˈɕɑŋʁɐ]
Noun
[edit]genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)
- genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features
Declension
[edit]| commongender | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | genre | genren | genrer | genrerne |
| genitive | genres | genrens | genrers | genrernes |
Dutch
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French genre. Doublet of gender and genus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʒɑnrə/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: gen‧re
Noun
[edit]genre n (plural genres, no diminutive)
- kind, type, genre
Anagrams
[edit]- enger, neger, regen
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French genre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɡenre/, [ˈɡe̞nre̞]
- Rhymes: -enre
- Syllabification(key): gen‧re
- Hyphenation(key): gen‧re
Noun
[edit]genre
- genre
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of genre (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | genre | genret | |
| genitive | genren | genrejen | |
| partitive | genreä | genrejä | |
| illative | genreen | genreihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | genre | genret | |
| accusative | nom. | genre | genret |
| gen. | genren | ||
| genitive | genren | genrejengenreinrare | |
| partitive | genreä | genrejä | |
| inessive | genressä | genreissä | |
| elative | genrestä | genreistä | |
| illative | genreen | genreihin | |
| adessive | genrellä | genreillä | |
| ablative | genreltä | genreiltä | |
| allative | genrelle | genreille | |
| essive | genrenä | genreinä | |
| translative | genreksi | genreiksi | |
| abessive | genrettä | genreittä | |
| instructive | — | genrein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Synonyms
[edit]- lajityyppi
Further reading
[edit]- “genre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Sense 6 is a semantic loan from English gender.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʒɑ̃ʁ/, (colloquial) /ʒɔʁ/
Audio (Paris): (file) Audio: (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Grenoble)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Agen)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Homophone: genres
- Hyphenation: genre
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃ʁ
Noun
[edit]genre m (plural genres)
- kind le genre humainthe human race
- style, look, type le genre dramatiquethe dramatic genre Il essaie de se donner un genre.He tries to give himself a look. C’est quel genre de mec ?What kind of guy is he? Tu écoutes quel genre de musique ?What kind of music do you listen to?
- genre
- (grammar) gender (of nouns) Les mots français sont du genre masculin ou du genre féminin.French words are either of masculine or feminine gender.
- (grammar) voice (of verbs)
- 1742, Nova elementa seu rudimenta linguae latinae, page 52:Huit choses arrivent au Verbe : Le Genre, le Mœuf, le Tems, la Personne, le Nombre, la Conjugaison, la Figure, ou la forme. Il y a cinq Genres de Verbes Personnels: l'Actif, le Passif, le Neutre, le Déponent & le Commun.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
- gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc.) Mon genre est non-binaire.My gender is non-binary.
- (biology) genus Toute espèce vivante ou ayant vécu est rattachée à un genre, selon la nomenclature binominale introduite par Carl von Linné.Any living or extinct species has a genus, according to the binomial nomenclature introduced by Carl von Linné.
- (archaic, colloquial) the done thing
Adverb
[edit]genre
- (colloquial, spoken) like, kind of (approximation, softener, filler in informal speech) Y avait genre 200 personnes à la fête.There were like 200 people at the party. C’est genre pas si grave.It’s kind of not that serious. Je suis genre rarement énervé.I'm like rarely annoyed. C’était, genre… trop gênant.It was, like… super awkward.
- (colloquial, spoken) like (introducing a quotation, reaction, or imitation) Elle était genre: « Occupe-toi de tes affaires ».She was like: “Mind your own business.” J’étais genre: « Quoi ?! ».I was like: “What?!”
- (colloquial, spoken) for example, such as On va faire des activités, genre ciné, bowling, resto.We’ll do activities like movies, bowling, restaurants.
Usage notes
[edit]In these senses, genre functions as an adverbial discourse marker, very frequent in spoken French (especially among younger speakers). It is rare in formal writing, though it may appear in texting and online chats.
Interjection
[edit]genre
- (colloquial, spoken) Expresses disbelief, irony or dismissal; used ironically (≈ yeah right, as if, no way). — Il a tout compris à la réunion. — Genre !— He understood everything at the meeting. — Yeah right! Genre, tu le connais vraiment ?No way, you actually know him? — Je reviens, dit-elle. — Genre…— I’ll be back, she said. — As if…
Derived terms
[edit]- BCBG, bon chic bon genre
- cisgenre
- en tous genres
- en tout genre
- études de genre
- faire genre
- faire mauvais genre
- genré
- genre humain
- genrer
- mégenrer
- transgenre
- unique en son genre
Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: жанр (žanr)
- → Dalmatian: genro
- → Danish: genre
- → Dutch: genre
- → English: genre
- → Finnish: genre
- → Franco-Provençal: janro
- → German: Genre
- → Japanese: ジャンル (janru)
- → Korean: 장르 (jangneu)
- → Macedonian: жанр (žanr)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: genre, sjanger
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: genre, sjanger
- → Persian: ژانر (žânr)
- → Russian: жанр (žanr)
- → Armenian: ժանր (žanr)
- → Estonian: žanr
- → Georgian: ჟანრი (žanri)
- → Kazakh: жанр (janr)
- → Latvian: žanrs
- → Lithuanian: žanras
- → Turkmen: žanr
- → Uyghur: ژانىر (zhanir)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: жа̏нр
- Latin script: žȁnr
- → Swedish: genre
- → Ukrainian: жанр (žanr)
References
[edit]- ^ “genre” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
Further reading
[edit]- “genre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.
Anagrams
[edit]- gêner
- nègre
- règne, régné
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere.
Noun
[edit]genre m (plural genres)
- (grammar, etc.) gender
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French genre.
Noun
[edit]genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)
- alternative spelling of sjanger
References
[edit]- “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French genre.
Noun
[edit]genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)
- alternative spelling of sjanger
References
[edit]- “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French genre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɧaŋɛr/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -¹aŋɛr
- Hyphenation: gen‧re
Noun
[edit]genre c
- a genre
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | genre | genres |
| definite | genren | genrens | |
| plural | indefinite | genrer | genrers |
| definite | genrerna | genrernas |
Anagrams
[edit]- gener, green, neger
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