French · adjective

désespéré

‘without hope’
dé(s)-PRIV+espéré

dé(s)- — privative

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
hopeless
hope+-lessprivative
French
désespéré
espéré+dé(s)-privative
Hindi
निराशnirāś
आशा+निर्-privative

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  1. 01désespéré is a French adjective formed from the stem espéré with the prefix dé(s)- (dé(s)-) (privative).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:fr:des-
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:0.9
  2. 02Its meaning ('without hope') can be approximated as NEG(HAVE(HAVE(WANT, HAVE(GOOD, AFTER)))) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.4 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: English hopeless (translation equivalent); Hindi निराश (nirāś) (translation equivalent); Tamil நம்பிக்கையற்ற (nampikkaiyaṟṟa) (translation equivalent); Telugu ఆశలేని (āśalēni) (translation equivalent).1 step
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