🇫🇷 French

kilos

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masculine

les kilos

kilos

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kilos
/le kilo/
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How do you say kilos in French?

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/le kilo/

How do you pronounce kilos in French?

kilos is pronounced /le kilo/ in French.

Example sentences

Le kilo de café est devenu très cher ce mois-ci.

The kilogram of coffee has become very expensive this month.

Un kilo entier de sucre pèse exactement mille grammes.

A whole kilogram of sugar weighs exactly one thousand grams.

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Why is it masculine?

Kilos is masculine in French because it's a shortened form of "kilogramme," which derives from Greek "kilo-" (thousand) combined with French "gramme" (from Latin "gramma"), and the full word "kilogramme" is masculine, making its abbreviation masculine as well. This follows the pattern where metric unit abbreviations retain the gender of their parent word.

What is the French word for kilos?

The French word for kilos is les kilos — masculine.

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