🇫🇷 French

caractères

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

les caractères

characters

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caractères
/le kaʁaktɛʁ/
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How do you say caractères in French?

IPA
/le kaʁaktɛʁ/

How do you pronounce caractères in French?

caractères is pronounced /le kaʁaktɛʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le caractère dominant de cet homme le rend impopulaire.

The dominant character/temperament of this man makes him unpopular.

Son caractère colérique est devenu très problématique.

His hot-tempered nature/character has become very problematic.

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Why is it masculine?

Caractères is masculine because it derives from Latin "caractēr" (from Greek "charaktēr"), which was masculine in Latin. French retained this grammatical gender from Latin. The word's -ère ending is actually a masculine marker in French (derived from the Latin -ēr ending), not a feminine one. Most French words ending in -ère are indeed feminine, but "caractère" and related words like "mystère" and "père" are masculine exceptions that preserve their Latin masculine gender despite the -ère ending.

What is the French word for characters?

The French word for characters is les caractères — masculine.

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