French dictionary
plusieurs/ply.zjœʁ/
adjective · A2 · Frequency 919
adjective
Meanings
several
Used as an adjective to indicate quantity, typically modifying countable nouns, emphasizing more than two but without specifying an exact number.
Examples
Plusieurs voisins ont participé au nettoyage du parc.
Several neighbors took part in cleaning the park.
J'ai consulté plusieurs ouvrages avant de rédiger mon rapport.
I consulted several books before writing my report.
Plusieurs candidats ont proposé des solutions intéressantes.
Several candidates proposed interesting solutions.
Collocations
- plusieurs personnesseveral people
Common mistakes
J'ai plusieurses raisons de partir.
J'ai plusieurs raisons de partir.
The lemma plusieurs is invariable when it means “several” or “many”; it cannot take the form plusieurses.
Related words
synonymquelquesa few, some
synonymdiversvarious, several