🇫🇷 français

glaciers

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masculine

les glaciers

glaciers

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glaciers
/le ɡlasje/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on glaciers en français ?

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/le ɡlasje/

How do you pronounce glaciers in français?

glaciers is pronounced /le ɡlasje/ in français.

Exemples de phrases

Le glacier bleu s'est effondré rapidement.

The blue glacier collapsed quickly.

Un ancien glacier recouvrait autrefois cette vallée profonde.

An ancient glacier once covered this deep valley.

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Pourquoi est-ce masculine ?

Glaciers is masculine in French. It is a noun meaning "ice cream" or "glacier" (the geological formation). The word derives from Old French "glaciere" (feminine), which came from Latin "glacies" (ice, feminine). However, the modern French "glacier" is masculine, likely due to reanalysis and analogy with the productive masculine "-er" suffix in French, which is commonly used for agent nouns and other masculine formations. This represents a gender shift from the original feminine Latin root.

Comment dit-on glaciers en français ?

En français, glaciers se dit les glaciers — masculine.

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