🇫🇷 French

empreintes

feminine

les empreintes

footprints

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empreintes
/le ɑ̃pʁɛ̃t/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say empreintes in French?

IPA
/le ɑ̃pʁɛ̃t/

How do you pronounce empreintes in French?

empreintes is pronounced /le ɑ̃pʁɛ̃t/ in French.

Example sentences

L'empreinte digitale était claire et identifiable sur la scène du crime.

The fingerprint was clear and identifiable at the crime scene.

Cette empreinte écologique importante préoccupe les environnementalistes du monde entier.

This important ecological footprint concerns environmentalists around the world.

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Why is it feminine?

Empreintes is feminine because it is a noun derived from the Old French past participle "empreinte" (feminine form of "empraint"), which came from Latin "impressa" (feminine past participle of "imprimere", meaning to impress or imprint). In French, nouns derived from feminine past participles typically retain feminine gender. The word means "footprint" or "impression," and its feminine gender reflects the feminine form of its Latin etymological source.

What is the French word for footprints?

The French word for footprints is les empreintes — feminine.

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