renouvelable
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French renouvelable (attested since 1461). By surface analysis, renouveler + -able.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]renouvelable (plural renouvelables)
- renewable (able to be renewed)
- 2021 May 31, “Le président sud-coréen, Moon Jae-in, abandonné par la jeunesse [South Korean president Moon Jae-in abandoned by the youth]”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Il y a quatre ans, ce sont les jeunes qui ont porté au pouvoir le président progressiste sud-coréen, Moon Jae-in. Aujourd’hui, ils menacent la dernière année de son mandat de cinq ans non renouvelable, au risque de ramener la droite conservatrice au pouvoir.
- Four years ago, it was the youth who brought the progressive South Korean president Moon Jae-in to power. Today, they are imperiling the last year of his non-renewable five-year term, at the risk of bringing the conservative right back to power.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “renouvelable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.