🇫🇷 French

chapitre

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masculine

le chapitre

chapter

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chapitre
/lə ʃapitʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say chapitre in French?

IPA
/lə ʃapitʁ/

How do you pronounce chapitre in French?

chapitre is pronounced /lə ʃapitʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le chapitre suivant est très important pour comprendre l'histoire.

The following chapter is very important for understanding the story.

Ce chapitre difficile a été révisé plusieurs fois par l'auteur.

This difficult chapter was revised several times by the author.

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Why is it masculine?

Chapitre is masculine because it derives from the Latin "capitulum" (a diminutive of "caput," meaning "head"), which was a neuter noun in Latin but became masculine when adopted into Old French, following the sound-based gender assignment rules of early Romance languages where words ending in -um typically became masculine.

What is the French word for chapter?

The French word for chapter is le chapitre — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishcapítuloelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiancapitoloilmasculine

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