🇫🇷 French

figures

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 figures

figures

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figures
/le fiɡyʁ/
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How do you say figures in French?

IPA
/le fiɡyʁ/

How do you pronounce figures in French?

figures is pronounced /le fiɡyʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

La figure rouge de la clown a fait rire tous les enfants.

The clown's red face made all the children laugh.

Sa figure était pâle et inquiète pendant l'examen difficile.

Her face was pale and worried during the difficult exam.

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Why is it feminine?

Figures is feminine in French because it derives from the Latin *figura*, which was feminine in gender, and French retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes and morphological evolution from Latin to Old French and Modern French. The Latin *figura* itself likely came from the verb *fingere* (to shape or form), but the feminine gender assignment was a fixed feature of the noun rather than a productive rule.

What is the French word for figures?

The French word for figures is les figures — feminine.

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