🇫🇷 French

mangues

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 mangues

mangoes

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mangues
/le mɑ̃ɡ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mangues in French?

IPA
/le mɑ̃ɡ/

How do you pronounce mangues in French?

mangues is pronounced /le mɑ̃ɡ/ in French.

Example sentences

La mangue jaune que j'ai achetée au marché était délicieuse.

The yellow mango that I bought at the market was delicious.

Cette mangue tropicale est la plus sucrée de toutes celles que j'ai goûtées.

This tropical mango is the sweetest of all the ones I have tasted.

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Why is it feminine?

Mangues is feminine because it derives from the Portuguese "manga," which came from Sanskrit "māṅga," and this word followed the French pattern of adopting -e ending words as feminine nouns. Like many French nouns ending in -e borrowed from Romance languages, it became grammatically feminine through the language's gendered noun system.

What is the French word for mangoes?

The French word for mangoes is les mangues — feminine.

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