🇫🇷 French

petits-déjeuners

masculine

les petits-déjeuners

breakfasts

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petits-déjeuners
/le pəti deʒœne/
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How do you say petits-déjeuners in French?

IPA
/le pəti deʒœne/

How do you pronounce petits-déjeuners in French?

petits-déjeuners is pronounced /le pəti deʒœne/ in French.

Example sentences

Le petit-déjeuner français est très différent du petit-déjeuner anglais.

The French breakfast is very different from the English breakfast.

Notre petit-déjeuner préféré est celui avec du pain frais et de la confiture.

Our favorite breakfast is the one with fresh bread and jam.

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Why is it masculine?

Petits-déjeuners is masculine because it's a compound noun where "déjeuner" (from Old French "disner," meaning to break a fast) inherited the masculine gender of its Latin root "disjejunare," and compounds in French typically take the gender of their head noun. However, the grammatical gender assignment in French is largely arbitrary rather than rule-based, so this is ultimately an exception that follows historical precedent rather than a productive pattern.

What is the French word for breakfasts?

The French word for breakfasts is les petits-déjeuners — masculine.

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