Grammatical class

Adverb

poliment

politely

Details

Syllables

po-li-ment

Phonetics

po.li.mɑ̃

Grammatical class

Adverb

Freq. (books)

5153

Freq. (movies)

8452

Freq. (news)

21599

Sentences

Tom s'inclina poliment.

Tom bowed politely.

A1

Petit Vénusien demande poliment pour aller aux toilettes.

Little Venusian politely asks for the toilet.

A1

Ses connaissances du russe sont, pour l'exprimer poliment, encore perfectibles.

His knowledge of Russian can, to be polite, still be improved.

A1

Tout le monde a écouté poliment.

Everyone listened politely.

A2

Il a poliment refusé l'offre d'emploi.

He declined the job-offer very politely.

A2

Tom sourit poliment.

Tom smiled politely.

B1

Il l'a remerciée poliment.

He politely thanked her.

B1

Tu aurais dû parler plus poliment.

You should've spoken more politely.

B1

Il la remercia très poliment et partit en vitesse.

He thanked her very politely and quickly left.

B1

Tom me salua poliment.

Tom greeted me politely.

B2

Je m'inclinai poliment.

I bowed politely.

C2