When Winter is leaving and the sun starts warming up the air during the day, the French start enjoying life outdoors again. Spring and autumn are the best times to travel to Paris. Especially spring offers the best travel weather for Paris, warm but not too hot. The parks are greening and blooming, and the cafes and restaurants are gradually filling up again. You really get the feeling the city of love is becoming more and more lively. So let’s have a little chat about spring in French.
The French word for spring is le printemps.
And as spring has also other meanings in English other than the season (like e.g. “spring mattress” or “spring water”): Don’t you worry. We have got those covered as well at the end of this post.
Spring in French
Let’s look at expressions in the English language and what the translations in the French language are.
| English Expressions | French Translations | Gender |
|---|---|---|
| spring awakening | l’éveil du printemps | masculine |
| spring break | les vacances de printemps | plural |
| spring chicken | le poulain | masculine |
| spring cleaning | le nettoyage de printemps | masculine |
| spring day | le jour du printemps | masculine |
| spring festival | la fête du printemps | feminine |
| spring fever | les émotions printanières | plural |
| spring flowers | les fleurs de printemps | plural |
| spring makeover | la cure de printemps | feminine |
| spring month | le mois du printemps | masculine |
| spring onion | l’oignon de printemps | masculine |
| spring roll | le rouleau de printemps | masculine |
| spring shopping | les courses de printemps | plural |
| spring therapy | la thérapie de printemps | feminine |
| spring tiredness | la fatigue printanière | feminine |
| spring weather | le temps printanier | masculine |
| spring wheat | le blé de printemps | masculine |
| spring wood | le bois de printemps | masculine |
Example Sentences
- Pendant les vacances de printemps, nous allons visiter un festival de musique. — This spring break, we are visiting a music festival.
- Ma femme adore décorer notre maison avec des fleurs de printemps. — My wife loves to decorate our house with spring flowers.
- Je suis toujours fatigué. Ça doit être la fatigue du printemps, je suppose.— I’m always tired. It must be spring tiredness I guess.
- Chaque année, lorsque l’hiver maussade prend fin, le réveil du printemps est un véritable miracle. — Every year when the dreary winter ends, the spring awakening is like a true miracle.
Other words containing Spring in French
Spring has more than one meaning in the English language. Apart from the season, ist can also mean e.g. the source of a river, or a coiled spring. So, if you were looking for these, here they are.
| English Expressions | French Translations | Gender |
|---|---|---|
| coiled spring | le ressort hélicoïdal | masculine |
| spring (of a river) | la source | feminine |
| spring constant | la constante du ressort | feminine |
| spring gun | le pistolet à ressort | masculine |
| spring lock | la serrure à ressort | feminine |
| spring mattress | le matelas à ressorts | masculine |
| spring scale | la balance à ressort | feminine |
| spring water | l’eau de source | masculine |
| springform pan | le moule à ressort | masculine |
Example Sentences
- Il n’y a rien de plus rafraîchissant qu’une eau de source fraîche lors d’une randonnée. — There’s nothing more refreshing than some cool spring water when you’re on a hiking trip.
- J’ai oublié de sortir le gâteau du four et maintenant mon moule à charnière est ruiné! — I forgot to take the cake out of the oven and now my springform pan is ruined!
