Grammatical class

Noun

mine

mine (excavation or explosive)

Details

Syllables

mi-ne

Phonetics

min

Grammatical class

Noun

Freq. (books)

10210

Freq. (movies)

11129

Freq. (news)

4194

Variants

Sentences

C'était une mine.

It was a mine.

A1

Tu as bonne mine !

You're looking good!

A1

Tom a une mine superbe.

Tom looks amazing.

A1

Vous avez mauvaise mine.

You look awful.

A1

Tom a bonne mine.

Tom is looking good.

A2

C'est une mine d'or.

This is a gold mine.

A2

Tu as mauvaise mine.

You look bad.

B1

Il me regarda avec une drôle de mine.

He looked at me with a strange expression.

B1

La vie de la ville était dictée par la mine.

The life of the city was dictated by the mine.

B1

La plupart de ces hommes travaillaient à la mine.

The majority of those men worked in the mine.

B1

Wikipédia contient une mine de faits.

Wikipedia contains a motherlode of facts.

B2

Il écoutait son instituteur avec une mine sombre.

He made a sour face, and listened to what his teacher had to say.

B2