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le nom
name
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How do you say nom in French?
How do you pronounce nom in French?
nom is pronounced /lə nɔ̃/ in French.
Example sentences
Le nom complet du directeur est écrit sur la porte de son bureau.
The director's full name is written on his office door.
Ce nom ancien était très populaire au Moyen Âge.
This old name was very popular in the Middle Ages.
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Why is it masculine?
Nom is masculine because it derives from Latin "nomen," which was a masculine noun of the third declension. French retained the grammatical gender of its Latin ancestors through sound changes and analogical processes. The masculine gender reflects the inflectional class the word belonged to in Latin rather than any semantic property of the word itself.
What is the French word for name?
The French word for name is le nom — masculine.
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