🇫🇷 French

sentiments

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Sentiments is masculine in French. The article is les, so the full form is les sentiments ("feelings").

MASCULINE

sentiments is the plural of sentiment

les sentiments — feelings

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sentiments
/le sɑ̃timɑ̃/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say sentiments in French?

IPA
/le sɑ̃timɑ̃/

How do you pronounce sentiments in French?

sentiments is pronounced /le sɑ̃timɑ̃/ in French.

Example sentences

Le sentiment profond qu'il éprouvait était impossible à exprimer.

The deep feeling that he experienced was impossible to express.

Ce sentiment amoureux était si fort et si sincère.

This loving feeling was so strong and so sincere.

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Why is it masculine?

Sentiments is masculine in French because it derives from the Latin "sentimentum" (from "sentire," to feel), and Latin nouns ending in "-mentum" were neuter but became masculine in Old French as the neuter gender collapsed into the masculine category during the language's evolution from Latin.

What is the French word for feelings?

The French word for feelings is les sentiments — masculine.

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