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l’amertume
bitterness (lingering resentment)
Written with an elided article (l’amertume) because the noun starts with a vowel sound, so the written gender is not visible here.
« Il évoque cet échec sans amertume, presque avec détachement. »
“He speaks of that failure without bitterness, almost with detachment.”
In other languages
- Spanish amargura (resentimiento persistente)
- Portuguese amargura (ressentimento persistente)
- Arabic المرارة (ضغينة باقية)
- German Bitterkeit (nachtragender Groll)
- Italian amarezza (rancore persistente)
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