🇫🇷 French

os

masculine

les os

bones

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os
/lez o/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say os in French?

IPA
/lez o/

How do you pronounce os in French?

os is pronounced /lez o/ in French.

Example sentences

L'os blanc que j'ai trouvé dans le jardin est très ancien.

The white bone that I found in the garden is very old.

L'os cassé du chien pauvre nécessitait une intervention vétérinaire immédiate.

The poor dog's broken bone required immediate veterinary intervention.

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Why is it masculine?

Os (bone) is masculine in French because it derives from Latin "os, ossis" (bone), which was grammatically masculine in Latin. French retained this masculine gender through the evolution of Romance languages, even though the nominative singular form simplified from "ossis" to "os."

What is the French word for bones?

The French word for bones is les os — masculine.

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