🇫🇷 French

peuples

masculine

les peuples

peoples

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peuples
/le pœpl/
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How do you say peuples in French?

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/le pœpl/

How do you pronounce peuples in French?

peuples is pronounced /le 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?

Peuples 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 peoples?

The French word for peoples is les peuples — masculine.

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