🇫🇷 French

sucres

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

les sucres

sugars

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sucres
/le sykʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say sucres in French?

IPA
/le sykʁ/

How do you pronounce sucres in French?

sucres is pronounced /le sykʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le sucre blanc est plus pur que le sucre brun.

White sugar is purer than brown sugar. (The masculine adjective 'blanc' and article 'le' mark sucre as masculine)

Ce sucre cristallisé est excellent pour mes gâteaux.

This crystallized sugar is excellent for my cakes. (The masculine demonstrative 'ce' and masculine adjective 'cristallisé' agree with the masculine noun sucre)

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Why is it masculine?

Sucres is masculine because it derives from Latin "saccharum" (borrowed from Greek "sakcharon"), which was masculine in gender. French retained this grammatical gender through normal phonetic evolution. The word traveled through Old French as a masculine noun and has remained so, following the typical pattern of Latin masculine nouns ending in -um that became French words ending in -e.

What is the French word for sugars?

The French word for sugars is les sucres — masculine.

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