French · noun

enfance

‘the state or period of being a child’
enfant+-anceST

-ance — abstract state

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
childhood
child+-hoodabstract state
French
enfance
enfant+-anceabstract state
Hindi
बचपनbacpan
बच्चा+-पनabstract state
Telugu

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  1. 01enfance is a French noun formed from the stem enfant with the suffix -ance (-ance) (abstract state).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:fr:-ance
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:0.9
  2. 02Its meaning ('the state or period of being a child') is represented as STATE_OF(CHILD) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: English childhood (translation equivalent); Hindi बचपन (bacpan) (translation equivalent); Tamil குழந்தைப்பருவம் (kuḻantaipparuvam) (translation equivalent); Telugu పిల్లతనం (pillatanaṁ) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment