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# fille

«fille» in Mova's school dictionary: **«girl» or «daughter»: «une petite fille» = a little girl…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (French: une fille, des filles); not an English word

### meaning for a pupil

(French) «Fille» means «girl» or «daughter»: «une petite fille» = a little girl, «ma fille» = my daughter. It sounds like «fee» with a soft y at the end («feey»), and it is not an English word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In French lessons, «fille» is learned with «garçon» (boy): «Je suis une fille» = I am a girl. «Fille» is a feminine noun, so it goes with «la» and «une». Grown-ups know the phrase «jeune fille» (young lady). Do not mix it up with English «fill» or «file».

### examples

- «Je suis une fille» means «I am a girl» in French. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/#x1)
- «C'est ma fille» means «This is my daughter.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/#x2)
- In French, «fille» is feminine: «la fille», «une fille». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/#x3)
- The French teacher said «filles» for the girls and «garçons» for the boys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/#x4)
- «Petite-fille» in French means granddaughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/#x5)
- «La fille du roi» means «the king's daughter». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/#x6)

### note

French only; plural «filles». The «ll» in «fille» sounds like «y», not like an English l. Trap: «fillet» (a boneless piece of meat or fish) and «fill» are different English words.

### In the corpora

- [An only child is fille unique (a girl) or fils unique (a boy); enfant unique works for anyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/14-my-family/11/)
- [Je suis une fille and je suis un garçon: être is followed by un or une matching the noun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fille» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fille/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.