🇫🇷 French

tours

feminine

les tours

towers

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tours
/le tuʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say tours in French?

IPA
/le tuʁ/

How do you pronounce tours in French?

tours is pronounced /le tuʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

La tour Eiffel est très célèbre et elle est impressionnante.

The Eiffel Tower is very famous and it is impressive.

Cette vieille tour médiévale a été restaurée par les architectes locaux.

This old medieval tower was restored by the local architects.

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Why is it feminine?

Tours is feminine in French because it derives from the Latin "turris" (tower), which was feminine in Latin. French retained this grammatical gender through phonetic evolution, where Latin feminine nouns ending in -is typically lost their final consonant, resulting in forms like "tour." The feminine gender persisted through this sound change.

What is the French word for towers?

The French word for towers is les tours — feminine.

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