Grammatical class
Adjective
voisin
neighbouring, neighboring
Details
Syllables
voi-sin
Phonetics
vwa.zɛ̃
Grammatical class
Adjective
Freq. (books)
1858
Freq. (movies)
2240
Freq. (news)
2317
Variants
Sentences
C'est un pays voisin.
It's a neighbouring country.
Sami habitait dans un état voisin.
Sami lived in a nearby state.
Je crois avoir entendu un chat miauler dans l'appartement voisin.
I think I heard a cat miaowing in the neighbour's flat.
Le Sahara occidental est un pays voisin.
Western Sahara is a neighboring country.
Je n’avais aucune nouvelle de la situation politique dans notre pauvre pays, je ne savais pas ce que j’allais trouver en y foulant son sol, si nous arrivions à passer la frontière du pays voisin sans nous faire arrêter.
I had had no news of the political situation in our poor country. I did not know what I would find when I set foot there; if, that is, we managed to cross the border from a neighbouring country without being arrested.