🇫🇷 French

doigts

masculine

les doigts

fingers

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doigts
/le dwa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say doigts in French?

IPA
/le dwa/

How do you pronounce doigts in French?

doigts is pronounced /le dwa/ in French.

Example sentences

Le doigt blessé du musicien l'empêche de jouer du piano.

The injured finger of the musician prevents him from playing the piano.

Ce doigt long et fin est parfait pour un violoniste.

This long and slender finger is perfect for a violinist.

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Why is it masculine?

Doigts is masculine because it derives from the Latin "digitus," which was masculine in gender, and French retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes (digitus > doigt). Like most Latin masculine nouns ending in -us, their French descendants inherited the masculine gender.

What is the French word for fingers?

The French word for fingers is les doigts — masculine.

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