🇫🇷 French

justices

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feminine

les justices

justices

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justices
/le ʒystis/
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How do you say justices in French?

IPA
/le ʒystis/

How do you pronounce justices in French?

justices is pronounced /le ʒystis/ in French.

Example sentences

La justice française est réputée très rigoureuse et impartiale.

French justice is reputed to be very rigorous and impartial. (The feminine adjectives 'française' and 'impartiale' agree with the feminine noun 'justice')

Cette nouvelle justice est plus accessible et transparente pour tous les citoyens.

This new justice is more accessible and transparent for all citizens. (The feminine adjectives 'nouvelle', 'accessible', and 'transparente' agree with the feminine noun 'justice')

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Why is it feminine?

Justices is feminine in French because it derives from the Latin *iustitia*, which was grammatically feminine as a first-declension Latin noun ending in *-ia*—a suffix that typically produced feminine nouns in both Latin and the Romance languages that inherited them. This Latin feminine gender was preserved through Old French and into Modern French, where most *-ia*/-*-ice* nouns remain feminine.

What is the French word for justices?

The French word for justices is les justices — feminine.

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