précisément
Appearance
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]précisément
- in a precise manner; without approximation
- specifically
- (elliptically, in answers) exactly, precisely
- (rhetoric) indicates a logical link
- 1955, Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees:
- Mon jeune âge, précisément, me forçait à imaginer l’avenir en fonction de moi-même et d’une certaine recherche du bonheur.
- Precisely because of my young age, I could not help but imagine the future according to myself and a certain search for happiness.
Further reading
[edit]- “précisément”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.