🇫🇷 French

morts

feminine

les morts

deaths

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morts
/le mɔʁ/
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How do you say morts in French?

IPA
/le mɔʁ/

How do you pronounce morts in French?

morts is pronounced /le mɔʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

La mort subite du roi a choqué tout le royaume.

The sudden death of the king shocked the entire kingdom.

Cette mort tragique a laissé sa famille complètement dévastée.

This tragic death left his family completely devastated.

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Why is it feminine?

Morts is feminine in French because it derives from Latin "mors, mortis" (feminine), which belonged to the third declension where words ending in "-s" with a consonant before it were typically feminine. This Latin gender was preserved when French evolved from Vulgar Latin, making "la mort" the standard form.

What is the French word for deaths?

The French word for deaths is les morts — feminine.

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