Today, there are approximately 60,000 words recorded by current French dictionaries.
This figure is substantial.
But our language is in motion, it is constantly enriched with new words, according to the creativity of its speakers.
And sometimes, we lack a term or a formula, which does not exist in French, to describe a feeling or a situation.
Let
's take “acersocome”
.
Absent from dictionaries, it is nevertheless very practical for describing someone with long hair.
Like the
"boufart"
, a person who eats a lot.
Or the verb
“doloser”,
synonymous with
“to complain without reason”
.
All of these neologisms were coined by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, a
“famously misunderstood”
18th-century writer , notes Jean-Loup Chiflet in his
Love Dictionary of the French Language.
Le Figaro invites
you to test your knowledge of the jubilant words of this inventor.
Will you do a 10/10?
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