🇫🇷 French

espèces

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

les espèces

species

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espèces
/le ɛspɛs/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say espèces in French?

IPA
/le ɛspɛs/

How do you pronounce espèces in French?

espèces is pronounced /le ɛspɛs/ in French.

Example sentences

Cette espèce rare de papillon a été découverte récemment en Amazonie.

This rare species of butterfly was recently discovered in the Amazon.

L'espèce menacée d'extinction nécessite une protection immédiate de nos gouvernements.

The endangered species requires immediate protection from our governments.

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Why is it feminine?

Espèces is feminine because it derives from the Latin "species" (feminine noun), which originally meant "appearance" or "form" and later came to mean "kind" or "type"—a semantic shift that preserved the feminine gender through Old French into modern French.

What is the French word for species?

The French word for species is les espèces — feminine.

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