🇫🇷 French

acteurs

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masculine

les acteurs

actors

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acteurs
/le aktœʁ/
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How do you say acteurs in French?

IPA
/le aktœʁ/

How do you pronounce acteurs in French?

acteurs is pronounced /le aktœʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le acteur principal est très talentueux et il a remporté un prix prestigieux.

The main actor is very talented and he won a prestigious award.

Cet acteur français est devenu célèbre après son premier rôle dramatique.

This French actor became famous after his first dramatic role.

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Why is it masculine?

Acteurs is masculine in French because it derives from the Latin "actor" (masculine noun meaning "doer" or "performer"), which retained its grammatical gender through Old French into modern French. Latin's grammatical gender system assigned masculine gender to agent nouns ending in "-tor," a pattern that persisted even as French developed the feminine form "actrice" by adding the feminine suffix "-ice."

What is the French word for actors?

The French word for actors is les acteurs — masculine.

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