🇫🇷 français

routes

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

les routes

roads

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routes
/le ʁut/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on routes en français ?

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/le ʁut/

How do you pronounce routes in français?

routes is pronounced /le ʁut/ in français.

Exemples de phrases

La route nationale est très dangereuse pendant l'hiver.

The national road is very dangerous during winter.

Cette vieille route était complètement abandonnée et devenue impraticable.

This old road was completely abandoned and had become impassable.

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Pourquoi est-ce feminine ?

Routes is feminine in French because it descends from the Latin feminine noun "rupta" (feminine past participle of "rumpere," meaning "broken" or "broken way"), which referred to a path broken or cleared through the landscape. The feminine gender was preserved through the phonetic evolution from Latin to Old French and into Modern French.

Comment dit-on roads en français ?

En français, roads se dit les routes — feminine.

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