🇫🇷 French

équipes

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feminine

les équipes

teams

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équipes
/le ekip/
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How do you say équipes in French?

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/le ekip/

How do you pronounce équipes in French?

équipes is pronounced /le ekip/ in French.

Example sentences

La équipe française a remporté la victoire avec une performance exceptionnelle.

The French team won the victory with an exceptional performance.

Notre équipe est très motivée et prête à relever tous les défis difficiles.

Our team is very motivated and ready to take on all the difficult challenges.

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Why is it feminine?

Équipes is feminine. It derives from Old French "esquipe," which comes from the Scandinavian root "skip" (ship). The word originally referred to a ship's crew. The feminine gender is likely due to the influence of other feminine nautical and collective terms in French, though the exact mechanism of gender assignment in this case is not definitively documented. The meaning later generalized from "crew" to "team."

What is the French word for teams?

The French word for teams is les équipes — feminine.

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