annuel

Annuel is a French adjective meaning that something occurs once per year or lasts for a year. The masculine form is annuel and the feminine form is annuelle; the adverbial form is annuellement. The word comes from Latin annuus, meaning yearly.

Usage in French spans a range of contexts. It is commonly used to describe recurring or yearly phenomena, such as un rapport annuel (an annual report), un budget annuel (an annual budget), or une fête annuelle (an annual festival). In biology, the term is used to classify organisms or plants that complete their life cycle within one year, as in une plante annuelle. The plural forms are annuels ( masculine ) and annuelles ( feminine ), depending on the gender of the noun they describe.

As a noun, the form is less frequent, but in some registers you may encounter l’annuel or un annuel to refer to a publication or document produced yearly. In routine practice, however, speakers typically use explicit phrases such as rapport annuel or publication annuelle rather than treating annuel as a stand-alone noun.

Annuellement is the corresponding adverb meaning yearly or on a yearly basis, used to describe the frequency of actions or events, for example, les frais annuellement révisés (the annually revised costs).

See also: annual, yearly; phrases such as année, rapport annuel, budget annuel, plante annuelle. The term is closely linked to concepts tied to cycles, calendars, and financial or administrative planning.