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.

A1

Sami habitait dans un état voisin.

Sami lived in a nearby state.

A1

Je crois avoir entendu un chat miauler dans l'appartement voisin.

I think I heard a cat miaowing in the neighbour's flat.

A1

Le Sahara occidental est un pays voisin.

Western Sahara is a neighboring country.

A2

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.

B1