🇫🇷 French

bras

masculine

les bras

arms

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bras
/le bʁɑ/
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How do you say bras in French?

IPA
/le bʁɑ/

How do you pronounce bras in French?

bras is pronounced /le bʁɑ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le bras droit du président est son conseiller le plus influent.

The president's right-hand man (literally: right arm) is his most influential advisor.

Son bras musclé a remporté le trophée de boxe.

His muscular arm won the boxing trophy.

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Why is it masculine?

Bras (arm) is masculine in French because it derives from Latin "brachium," which was masculine in gender, and French retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes during the language's evolution from Vulgar Latin. The word's gender follows the natural inheritance pattern of most Latin masculine nouns ending in -ium, which typically became masculine nouns in -as in Old French.

What is the French word for arms?

The French word for arms is les bras — masculine.

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