🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

certain {m}

  /sɛʁ.tɛ̃/
  • Pronom indéfini qui désigne une personne dont l’identité importe peu
 some, certain

certain adjective

  /sɛʁ.tɛ̃/
  • Indubitable
  • Fixé ; déterminé
 certain
d’un certain âge
elderly
un certain nombre de
a number of
un certain
one
dans un certain sens
in a way

🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

certain adjective

  /ˈsɜːtn̩/ , /ˈsɝtn̩/ , /ˈsɝtən/ , /ˈsɝʔn̩/
  • Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.
 certain
  • (euphemism, preceded by "a") Used to denote that the speaker is referring to a specific person or thing that they do not want to name directly, implying that the listener should infer the identity of the referent.
 certain, quelconque

certain determiner

  /ˈsɜːtn̩/ , /ˈsɝtn̩/ , /ˈsɝtən/ , /ˈsɝʔn̩/
  • Having been determined but not specified.
 certain
debt being certain, of a fixed amount and due
dette certaine, liquide et exigible
be dead certain
mettre sa main au feu
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