🇫🇷 French

ordinateurs

masculine

les ordinateurs

computers

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ordinateurs
/le ɔʁdinatœʁ/
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How do you say ordinateurs in French?

IPA
/le ɔʁdinatœʁ/

How do you pronounce ordinateurs in French?

ordinateurs is pronounced /le ɔʁdinatœʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le nouvel ordinateur est très puissant et rapide.

The new computer is very powerful and fast.

Mon ancien ordinateur était lent, mais ce nouvel ordinateur fonctionne parfaitement.

My old computer was slow, but this new computer works perfectly.

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Why is it masculine?

Ordinateurs is masculine because it derives from the Latin "ordinatorem" (nominative: "ordinator"), which referred to someone who ordains or arranges things. In French, words derived from Latin masculine nouns ending in "-or" typically remain masculine. The word was chosen in the 1950s by French IBM engineer Jacques Perret as a neologism to mean "computer," deliberately selecting a masculine Latin root.

What is the French word for computers?

The French word for computers is les ordinateurs — masculine.

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