petite

«petite» in Mova's school dictionary: Small, short and slim in a pretty way — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (petite)

meaning for a pupil

1) (of a girl or woman) Small, short and slim in a pretty way. tree →

2) Used for clothing sizes for shorter women. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is used in shops for clothes sizes and to describe someone politely. In stories it describes a small, neat character. A borrowed French word. Phrases: petite size.

examples

• My aunt is petite and wears small shoes. tree →
• The shop has a petite section. tree →
• The petite dancer leapt across the stage. tree →
• She looked petite next to her tall brother. tree →
• These jeans come in petite and tall. tree →
• A petite girl in a red coat waved at us. tree →

note

Borrowed from French (meaning small); say «puh-TEET». Mostly used of women, not men or objects. It is polite and positive, unlike «tiny» or «skinny».

In the corpora

• Adjectives agree even after est: il est petit, elle est petite.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «petite» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.