🇫🇷 French

messieurs

masculine

les messieurs

gentlemen

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messieurs
/le mesjø/
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How do you say messieurs in French?

IPA
/le mesjø/

How do you pronounce messieurs in French?

messieurs is pronounced /le mesjø/ in French.

Example sentences

Le monsieur âgé a oublié son portefeuille à la gare.

The elderly man forgot his wallet at the station.

Ce monsieur distingué porte toujours un costume bleu.

This distinguished man always wears a blue suit.

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Why is it masculine?

Messieurs is masculine because it derives from the Old French phrase "mon sieur" (my lord), where "sieur" comes from the Latin "senior" (elder/lord), which is a masculine noun; the grammatical gender was inherited from this Latin root and became fixed as the word grammaticalized into a single term.

What is the French word for gentlemen?

The French word for gentlemen is les messieurs — masculine.

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