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le peuple
people
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How do you say peuple in French?
How do you pronounce peuple in French?
peuple is pronounced /lə pœpl/ in French.
Example sentences
Le peuple français est très fier de son histoire.
The French people are very proud of their history.
Le peuple entier s'est mobilisé pour cette cause importante.
The entire people mobilized themselves for this important cause.
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Why is it masculine?
Peuple is masculine because it derives from Latin "populus," which was a masculine noun in Latin's second declension, and French retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes. This gender assignment followed the standard pattern of how Latin masculine nouns were inherited into French rather than following any semantic logic.
What is the French word for people?
The French word for people is le peuple — masculine.
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