🇫🇷 French

esprits

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

les esprits

minds

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esprits
/le ɛspʁi/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say esprits in French?

IPA
/le ɛspʁi/

How do you pronounce esprits in French?

esprits is pronounced /le ɛspʁi/ in French.

Example sentences

Le vieil esprit hante encore cette maison.

The old spirit still haunts this house.

Son esprit créatif lui a permis de devenir un artiste renommé.

His creative mind allowed him to become a renowned artist.

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Why is it masculine?

Esprits is masculine because it derives from Latin "spiritus" (spirit, breath), which is a second-declension masculine noun that naturally carried its gender into Old French and modern French. The masculine gender was preserved through centuries of linguistic evolution despite the word's abstract meaning.

What is the French word for minds?

The French word for minds is les esprits — masculine.

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