🇫🇷 French

expérience

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

l' expérience

experiment

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expérience
/lɛkspeʁjɑ̃s/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say expérience in French?

IPA
/lɛkspeʁjɑ̃s/

How do you pronounce expérience in French?

expérience is pronounced /lɛkspeʁjɑ̃s/ in French.

Example sentences

Cette expérience scientifique est très importante pour notre recherche.

This scientific experiment is very important for our research.

Mon expérience professionnelle m'a rendue plus compétente dans ce domaine.

My professional experience made me more competent in this field.

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Why is it feminine?

Expérience is feminine because it derives from Latin "experientia," which was a feminine noun (following the first declension pattern ending in -a), and French inherited this grammatical gender when the word evolved into its modern form. This -a ending in Latin systematically produced feminine nouns in Romance languages, which is why French words like "science," "patience," and "présence" are also feminine.

What is the French word for experiment?

The French word for experiment is l' expérience — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishexperimento flips!elmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianesperimento flips!l'masculine

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