🇫🇷 French

passagers

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

les passagers

passengers

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passagers
/le pasaʒe/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say passagers in French?

IPA
/le pasaʒe/

How do you pronounce passagers in French?

passagers is pronounced /le pasaʒe/ in French.

Example sentences

Le passager occupé a manqué son vol.

The busy passenger missed his flight.

Ce passager français était très courtois avec l'hôtesse.

This French passenger was very polite with the flight attendant.

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Why is it masculine?

Passagers is masculine because it derives from the Latin "passagarius," an agent noun formed with the masculine suffix "-arius" (which produces masculine nouns in Latin). French preserved this masculine gender when adopting the word, as is typical for nouns inherited from Latin masculine agent nouns ending in "-arius" (compare: "légionnaire," "militaire").

What is the French word for passengers?

The French word for passengers is les passagers — masculine.

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