childhood

enfance

La période de la vie pendant laquelle on était enfant.

En anglais simple : The period of your life when you were a child.

• I spent my childhood by the sea.
• He remembers little about his early childhood.
• Were you friends during childhood?

Comment l'utiliser : in/during childhood (She learned to swim during childhood.)

Expressions courantes : during childhood, childhood memories, early childhood

enfance

Le fait d’être un enfant et pas encore un adulte.

En anglais simple : The state of being a child rather than an adult.

• Every child deserves a happy childhood.
• Early responsibility robbed him of his childhood.
• Their work explores childhood and adulthood.

Contraires : adulthood

Expressions courantes : childhood innocence, childhood development, end of childhood