🇫🇷 French

largeur

feminine

la largeur

width

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largeur
/la laʁʒœʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say largeur in French?

IPA
/la laʁʒœʁ/

How do you pronounce largeur in French?

largeur is pronounced /la laʁʒœʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

La largeur de cette porte est trop petite pour nos meubles.

The width of this door is too small for our furniture.

Cette largeur nouvelle permettra aux camions de passer facilement.

This new width will allow trucks to pass easily.

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Why is it feminine?

Largeur is feminine because French nouns ending in -eur derived from Latin -or/-or suffixes are typically feminine when they denote abstract qualities or states. This word comes from the Latin "largus" (wide, broad) and follows the productive -eur suffix pattern in French, which generally produces feminine nouns for abstract nouns of this type.

What is the French word for width?

The French word for width is la largeur — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianlarghezzalafeminine

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