🇫🇷 French

poivres

masculine

les poivres

peppers

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poivres
/le pwavʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say poivres in French?

IPA
/le pwavʁ/

How do you pronounce poivres in French?

poivres is pronounced /le pwavʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le poivre noir est plus piquant que le poivre blanc.

Black pepper is spicier than white pepper.

Ce poivre français est excellent pour mes plats.

This French pepper is excellent for my dishes.

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Why is it masculine?

Poivres is masculine because it derives from Latin "piper," which was a masculine noun, and French inherited this grammatical gender through sound changes that obscured the Latin ending. The word's gender was preserved despite the loss of the final "r" sound in French pronunciation, making it an inherited gender rather than one determined by modern French morphology.

What is the French word for peppers?

The French word for peppers is les poivres — masculine.

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