🇫🇷 French

cours

masculine

les cours

courses

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cours
/le kuʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cours in French?

IPA
/le kuʁ/

How do you pronounce cours in French?

cours is pronounced /le kuʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le cours de mathématiques est très difficile cette année.

The mathematics course is very difficult this year.

Mon professeur a annulé le cours prévu pour demain.

My professor canceled the planned course for tomorrow.

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Why is it masculine?

Cours is masculine because it derives from the Latin "cursus" (a running, course, or journey), which is a masculine noun of the fourth declension, and French retained this grammatical gender from Latin. The word's masculine gender has been preserved through regular sound changes in French phonology without any semantic shift that would have triggered a gender change.

What is the French word for courses?

The French word for courses is les cours — masculine.

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