malade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.lad/

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Adjective

malade (plural malades)

1. ill, unwell, sick

   Elle est si malade qu’elle ne peut pas venir.

   She is so ill that she cannot come.

2. (informal) Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental.

Noun

malade m, f (plural malades)

1. An ill or sick person; a patient.
2. (informal) Somebody who is crazy; a nutcase.
   • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 53:

     "Ciboire! Il a joui en l'étranglant! C'est un hostie de malade!." — What the hell! He came while strangling him. He's a damn nutcase!

Further reading

• “malade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From French malade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈlaːdə/
• Rhymes: -aːdə

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Adjective

malade (comparative malader, superlative am maladesten)

1. ill, unwell, sick

Further reading

• malade in Duden online

Etymology

From Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

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Adjective

malade m, f

1. (Jersey) ill

Adjective

malade m (oblique and nominative feminine singular malade)

1. ill, unwell, sick