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Genre Definition

genre

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on: Genre

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Etymology

Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus (cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos)), from Proto-Indo-European *genes-. Compare gender.

Pronunciation

Noun

genre (plural genres)

  1. 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.
    The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

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Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on: Genre

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Noun

genre n. (plural genres, ??? please provide the diminutive!)

  1. kind, type, genre

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Finnish

Pronunciation

Noun

genre

  1. genre

Declension

Declension of genre (type nalle)
singular plural
nominative genre genret
genitive genren genrejen genrein1
partitive genreä genrejä
accusative genre genren genret
inessive genressä genreissä
elative genrestä genreistä
illative genreen genreihin
adessive genrellä genreillä
ablative genreltä genreiltä
allative genrelle genreille
essive genrenä genreinä
translative genreksi genreiksi
instructive – genrein
abessive genrettä genreittä
comitative – genreineen
1) Rare.

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French

Etymology

From Latin genus (genitive generis), cognate with Ancient Greek γένος (génos), from Proto-Indo-European *genes-.

Pronunciation

Noun

genre m. (plural genres)

  1. kind
    Le genre humain.
  2. style
    le genre dramatique.
  3. (grammar) gender
    Les mots français sont du genre masculin ou du genre féminin.
  4. (biology) genus
    Toute espèce vivante ou ayant vécu est rattachée à un genre, selon la nomenclature binominale introduite par Carl von Linné.
  5. look, type
    Il essaie de se donner un genre.
  6. (archaic, colloquial) the done thing

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

Noun

genre c.

  1. a genre

Declension

Declension of genre
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative genre genren genrer genrerna
genitive genres genrens genrers genrernas

 

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