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Desbordante is not a French word. If you remove the s you get debordante which is still not French but adding an é makes débordante - yay, a French word :) Dé
by BrandoElFollito 3y ago
Desbordante is not a French word.
If you remove the s you get debordante which is still not French but adding an é makes débordante - yay, a French word :)
Débordante is a feminine adjective and indeed means "that is overflowing", often metaphorically.
- jszymborski 3y agoMy mistake, I checked larousse but my eye glossed over the "s" evidently.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoKudos to you for reaching to one of the best sources! Interestingly enough, the construction "es" used to be present in older French (until ca. XVIII century) and then it transformed into "é". There are more of such transformations where a vowel + "s" changed into something else. A well-known one is os->ô like in hospital->hôpital (and the "os" is still visible in "hospitalité")