neige/nɛʒ/
noun · A2 · Frequency 2086
nounfeminine
Meanings
snow, crystalline frozen precipitation; pattern of dots seen on an untuned television set
Common meaning; the TV screen interference pattern is a figurative usage
cocaine (slang)
Slang usage referring to drugs
Examples
La neige a recouvert les routes pendant la nuit.
Snow covered the roads during the night.
Sur l’ancien téléviseur, la neige a remplacé l’image après la perte du signal.
On the old television, static replaced the picture after the signal was lost.
Dans ce roman policier, les enquêteurs découvrent que la neige désigne du crack.
In this crime novel, the investigators discover that neige refers to crack cocaine.
Collocations
- une forte chute de neigea heavy snowfall
Common mistakes
Il y a neige aujourd'hui.
Il neige aujourd'hui.
For the weather meaning “to snow,” French uses the impersonal verb form “il neige”; the noun neige cannot be placed directly after “il y a.”
Related words
synonymflocon de neigesnowflake
synonympoudreusepowder snow
- antonympluierain
nounfeminine
Meanings
snow, crystalline frozen precipitation; pattern of dots seen on an untuned television set
Common meaning; the TV screen interference pattern is a figurative usage
cocaine (slang)
Slang usage referring to drugs
Examples
Les neiges ont recouvert les sommets pendant la nuit.
Snow covered the summits during the night.
Les premières neiges ont rendu les routes de montagne difficiles à parcourir.
The first snows made the mountain roads difficult to travel on.
Les neiges de l’écran ont disparu après le réglage de l’antenne.
The snow on the screen disappeared after the antenna was adjusted.