malgré
See also: malgre
French
    
    Etymology
    
From Middle French maugré (literally “bad will”), from mal + gré, with etymological restoration of the l. Cognate with Italian malgrado and Catalan malgrat.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /mal.ɡʁe/
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Preposition
    
malgré
- despite, in spite of
- 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi
- Je laisse aller ce que j'ai tant aimé, malgré mon cœur qui cogne et s'ouvrait.- I let go that which I loved so much, despite my heart which knocks and opens.
 
 
- 2014, Indila, Comme un bateau
- Maman dit que malgré les épreuves il faut continuer à sourire.- Mum says that despite the trials we must continue to smile.
 
 
 
- 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi
- (with a pronoun) against (one's) will, despite (one's) protest
Derived terms
    
Further reading
    
- “malgré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
    
    
Noun
    
malgré f (oblique plural malgrez, nominative singular malgré, nominative plural malgrez)
Descendants
    
- → English: maugre
References
    
- malgré on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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