Usage Note
pis is a literary or fixed-phrase adverb meaning 'worse'; in everyday speech pire is more common. It survives in fixed expressions: tant pis ('too bad'), de mal en pis ('from bad to worse'). Outside these idioms it sounds old-fashioned.
Examples
"Tant pis si tu n'es pas là."
Natural Translation
Too bad if you're not there.
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