🇫🇷 French

nombres

masculine

les nombres

numbers

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nombres
/le nɔ̃bʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say nombres in French?

IPA
/le nɔ̃bʁ/

How do you pronounce nombres in French?

nombres is pronounced /le nɔ̃bʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le nombre total des étudiants est très grand.

The total number of students is very large.

Un nombre premier est divisible uniquement par un et par lui-même.

A prime number is divisible only by one and by itself.

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Why is it masculine?

Nombres is masculine because it derives from Latin "numerus," which was masculine in the second declension, and French retained this gender assignment when the word evolved phonetically. The Latin masculine ending -us typically produced masculine nouns in French, even though the final -s was eventually dropped.

What is the French word for numbers?

The French word for numbers is les nombres — masculine.

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