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[warped junco]

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[obsidian widget]

Well, alimentaire is an adjective (apparently it has a use in industry as a noun, but you're not going to run into that usually)

You're probably thinking of alimentation or aliment ?

[wicked blade]

Aliment is kind of foodstuff, raw material.

Nourriture is more general, aliment is more individual even though both are translated as food.

[obsidian widget]

• aliment → food/foodstuff; think individual indivisible units: rice, wheat, fish
• nourriture → the most general term for food, can really be anything that you eat; not generally used to talk about a specific thing, but more about having or not having
• alimentation → all of the foods that go into your diet; or, it can also refer to the power delivered into a computer or building (power supply)
• bouffe → like nourriture, but informal
• de quoi manger / bouffer → something to eat (the latter is informal)
• une collation / un goûter / un quatre-heures → a snack

[naive hedge]

i see, thanks