Grammatical class

Noun

siècle

century (period of 100 years)

Details

Syllables

siè-cle

Phonetics

sjɛkl

Grammatical class

Noun

Freq. (books)

675

Freq. (movies)

1684

Freq. (news)

1507

Sentences

Un siècle fait cent années.

A century is one hundred years.

A1

En quel siècle vivons-nous ?

What century are we living in?

A1

Ce n'est pas le XIXe siècle.

It isn't the 19th century.

A1

Cet arbre a plus d'un siècle.

This tree is more than a century old.

A1

Il est né au XIXe siècle.

He was born in the 19th century.

A2

L'histoire remonte au seizième siècle.

The story goes back to the sixteenth century.

A2

Le XXIe siècle commence en 2001.

The twenty-first century begins in 2001.

B1

Cette statue date du seizième siècle.

This statue dates from the sixteenth century.

B1

Le château a été bâti au XVIIe siècle.

The castle was constructed in the 17th century.

B1

Ce pourrait être la confrontation du siècle.

This could be the showdown of the century.

B1

Dix décennies forment un siècle.

Ten decades make up a century.

B2

Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VIᵉ siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler.

Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6ᵗʰ century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.

C2