mort

/mɔʁ/mourir
1.
adjectivePart3rdPastSing

dead (no longer alive)

exhausted (very tired)

no longer working / dead (for devices, batteries, etc.)

impossible / no chance (informal, e.g. 'c'est mort')

Laisse tomber pour le ciné ce soir, c'est mort, je suis vraiment crevé.

Forget the cinema tonight — it's not happening, I'm really exhausted.

Synonyms:décédé, crevé, HS, foutu, impossible
2.
nounmasculineSing

death (an instance or occurrence of dying)

a dead person / casualty

L'accident a fait un mort et trois blessés graves.

The accident resulted in one death and three serious injuries.

Synonyms:décès, trépas, victime (décédée)

Notes

GENERAL INFO

mort can be an adjective meaning "dead" (e.g., *Il est mort.* - He is dead.) or a noun meaning "death" (f.) or "a dead person/animal" (m./f.).

USAGE

As an adjective, it agrees in gender and number: *une plante morte*, *des animaux morts*. As a noun: *La mort est inévitable.* (Death is inevitable.) *Les morts sont partis.* (The dead have left.)

TRAPS

As a noun, "la mort" (feminine) refers to the abstract concept of death. "Un mort" (masculine) or "une morte" (feminine) refers to a deceased person. Do not confuse with the verb "mourir" (to die).