🇫🇷 French

chapitres

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masculine

les chapitres

chapters

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chapitres
/le ʃapitʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say chapitres in French?

IPA
/le ʃapitʁ/

How do you pronounce chapitres in French?

chapitres is pronounced /le 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?

Chapitres 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 chapters?

The French word for chapters is les chapitres — masculine.

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