🇫🇷 French

déjeuners

masculine

les déjeuners

lunches

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déjeuners
/le deʒœne/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say déjeuners in French?

IPA
/le deʒœne/

How do you pronounce déjeuners in French?

déjeuners is pronounced /le deʒœne/ in French.

Example sentences

Le déjeuner était délicieux et copieux ce midi.

The lunch was delicious and copious this noon.

Notre déjeuner habituel au restaurant italien est toujours bon marché.

Our usual lunch at the Italian restaurant is always cheap.

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Why is it masculine?

Déjeuners is masculine. While it does derive from Old French "disiuner" (to break a fast), formed from the prefix "dis-" and "jeûne" (fasting), the gender assignment is not inherited from "jeûne" (which is feminine). Rather, "déjeuner" became established as a masculine noun when it nominalized from the verb form. In French, many nouns derived from verbs take masculine gender by default, and "déjeuner" follows this pattern as a nominalized verb meaning both the action of eating lunch and the meal itself.

What is the French word for lunches?

The French word for lunches is les déjeuners — masculine.

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