🇫🇷 French

nuage

masculine

le nuage

cloud

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nuage
/lə nɥaʒ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say nuage in French?

IPA
/lə nɥaʒ/

How do you pronounce nuage in French?

nuage is pronounced /lə nɥaʒ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le nuage blanc flotte lentement dans le ciel bleu.

The white cloud floats slowly in the blue sky.

Ce nuage gris apportera de la pluie demain.

This gray cloud will bring rain tomorrow.

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Why is it masculine?

Nuage (cloud) is masculine because it derives from Latin "nubem," which was feminine, but the Old French diminutive form "nuage" (literally "small cloud") took the masculine gender of similar -age nouns in French, a productive suffix that typically produces masculine nouns. This represents a gender shift that occurred during the evolution from Latin to French, where many -age formations became standardly masculine.

What is the French word for cloud?

The French word for cloud is le nuage — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishnube flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italiannuvola flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesenuvem flips!afeminine

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