🇫🇷 French

pommes

feminine

les pommes

apples

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pommes
/le pɔm/
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How do you say pommes in French?

IPA
/le pɔm/

How do you pronounce pommes in French?

pommes is pronounced /le pɔm/ in French.

Example sentences

La pomme rouge que j'ai cueillie ce matin est très sucrée.

The red apple that I picked this morning is very sweet.

Cette pomme verte est moins mûre que celle-ci, qui est dorée.

This green apple is less ripe than this one, which is golden.

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Why is it feminine?

Pommes is feminine because it derives from Latin "pomum" (fruit), which was a neuter noun. In Old French, the final -um ending of neuter Latin nouns typically evolved to -e, which became associated with feminine gender. This phonetic evolution, combined with semantic associations with other feminine fruit and food words, led to "pomme" being reanalyzed and established as feminine in French.

What is the French word for apples?

The French word for apples is les pommes — feminine.

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