Accordsouris
les souris
mice
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How do you say souris in French?
How do you pronounce souris in French?
souris is pronounced /le suʁi/ in French.
Example sentences
La souris grise a mangé tout le fromage dans la cuisine.
The gray mouse ate all the cheese in the kitchen.
Cette petite souris blanche est très intelligente et rapide.
This small white mouse is very intelligent and fast.
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Why is it feminine?
Souris is feminine. It derives from Latin "sorex" (shrew), which became "souris" in Old French. The word retained feminine gender, likely reinforced by the -is ending which was often associated with feminine nouns in Old French. However, the exact mechanism of gender assignment in this case is not entirely clear from phonetic rules alone, making it somewhat irregular.
What is the French word for mice?
The French word for mice is les souris — feminine.
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