🇫🇷 French

brouillard

masculine

le brouillard

fog

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brouillard
/lə bʁujaʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say brouillard in French?

IPA
/lə bʁujaʁ/

How do you pronounce brouillard in French?

brouillard is pronounced /lə bʁujaʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le brouillard épais a rendu la route dangereuse ce matin.

The thick fog made the road dangerous this morning.

Ce brouillard matinal est magnifique et mystérieux.

This morning fog is magnificent and mysterious.

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Why is it masculine?

Brouillard is masculine because it derives from the Old French verb "brouiller" (to mix or confuse), and nouns formed from French verbs with the suffix "-ard" are typically masculine by convention. The word's gender follows this productive morphological pattern rather than stemming from a Latin origin.

What is the French word for fog?

The French word for fog is le brouillard — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italiannebbia flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseneblina flips!afeminine

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