notre

See also: nôtre

French

Alternative forms

• nôtre (archaic or literary)
• nostre (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French nostre, from Latin noster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔtʁ/
• (informal before a consonant) IPA^(key): /nɔt/

• Audio:

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Determiner

notre (plural nos)

1. (possessive) our

   C’est notre maison.

   It's our house.

   Notre Père, qui es aux cieux...

   Our Father, who art in Heaven...

Derived terms

• notredit

Related terms

French possessive determiners

			Possessee
			singular		plural
			m	f
Possessor	singular	1st	mon1	ma	mes
		2nd	ton1	ta	tes
		3rd	son1	sa	ses
	plural	1st	notre		nos
		2nd	votre2		vos2
		3rd	leur		leurs

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologisms man, tan, san. These are extremely rare.

Further reading

• “notre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• étron, noter, ténor, toner, trône, trôné