🇫🇷 French

pères

masculine

les pères

fathers

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pères
/le pɛʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say pères in French?

IPA
/le pɛʁ/

How do you pronounce pères in French?

pères is pronounced /le pɛʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le père est très intelligent et attentif avec ses enfants.

The father is very intelligent and attentive with his children.

Mon père adoptif est devenu mon meilleur ami après de nombreuses années.

My adoptive father became my best friend after many years.

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Why is it masculine?

Pères (father) is masculine because it derives from Latin "pater," which was grammatically masculine in the second declension, and this gender was preserved through Old French into Modern French. The masculine gender aligns with the biological sex of the referent, though French grammatical gender doesn't always follow this logic for other nouns.

What is the French word for fathers?

The French word for fathers is les pères — masculine.

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