🇫🇷 French

échecs

masculine

les échecs

failures

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échecs
/lez eʃɛk/
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How do you say échecs in French?

IPA
/lez eʃɛk/

How do you pronounce échecs in French?

échecs is pronounced /lez eʃɛk/ in French.

Example sentences

L'échec cuisant du projet nous a tous déçus.

The stinging failure of the project disappointed all of us.

Un échec scolaire peut être surmonté avec de la persévérance.

A school failure can be overcome with perseverance.

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Why is it masculine?

Échecs is masculine. The word derives from Old French "eschec," which came from Arabic "ash-shāh" (the king) through medieval chess terminology. The masculine gender was inherited from Old French and established through common usage in chess contexts, where the word became a standard masculine noun in French.

What is the French word for failures?

The French word for failures is les échecs — masculine.

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