🇫🇷 French

porte

feminine

la porte

door

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porte
/la pɔʁt/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say porte in French?

IPA
/la pɔʁt/

How do you pronounce porte in French?

porte is pronounced /la pɔʁt/ in French.

Example sentences

La porte verte est fermée.

The green door is closed.

Cette porte rouge est très grande et très ancienne.

This red door is very large and very old.

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Why is it feminine?

Porte is feminine because it derives from Latin "porta" (feminine noun meaning gate or door), and French retained the feminine gender of its Latin source word. Latin grammatical gender was largely preserved when Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin, with the -a ending typically indicating feminine nouns.

What is the French word for door?

The French word for door is la porte — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishpuertalafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianportalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseportaafeminine

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