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Universités is feminine in French. The article is les, so the full form is les universités ("universities").
FEMININEuniversités is the plural of université
les universités — universities
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How do you say universités in French?
How do you pronounce universités in French?
universités is pronounced /lez ynivɛʁsite/ in French.
Example sentences
L'université française est très ancienne et réputée dans le monde entier.
The French university is very old and renowned throughout the world.
L'université était fermée pendant les vacances d'été, donc elle était complètement vide.
The university was closed during summer vacation, so it was completely empty.
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Why is it feminine?
Universités is feminine because it derives from the Latin "universitas," which was feminine in gender, and French retained this grammatical gender when the word entered the language in the medieval period. The Latin term originally referred to a guild or association of scholars, and its feminine gender persisted through Old French into modern French.
What is the French word for universities?
The French word for universities is les universités — feminine.
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