cendre

From Old French cendre, from Latin cinerem, accusative of cinis, from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”).

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃dʁ/

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cendre f (plural cendres)

1. ash (of fire, etc.)

• cendrier
• mercredi des Cendres
• réduire en cendres
• renaître de ses cendres

cendre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cendrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cendrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cendrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cendrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cendrer

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

From Latin cinerem, accusative of cinis.

cendre oblique singular, f (oblique plural cendres, nominative singular cendre, nominative plural cendres)

1. ash (of fire, etc.)

• Bourguignon: cent
• Lorrain: cent
• French: cendre
• Norman: chendre (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Walloon: cinde

cendre

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cendrar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cendrar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cendrar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cendrar.