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Vélos is masculine in French. The article is les, so the full form is les vélos ("bicycles").
MASCULINEvélos is the plural of vélo
les vélos — bicycles
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How do you say vélos in French?
How do you pronounce vélos in French?
vélos is pronounced /le velo/ in French.
Example sentences
Le vélo rouge est tombé dans la rue.
The red bicycle fell into the street.
Mon vélo préféré est cassé, donc je dois en acheter un nouveau.
My favorite bicycle is broken, so I have to buy a new one.
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Why is it masculine?
Vélos is a colloquial shortening of "vélocipède" (from Latin "velox" meaning fast and "pes" meaning foot), which is masculine, and the abbreviated form retained the gender of its source word. Like many French abbreviations, it simply inherited the grammatical gender of the full word it came from.
What is the French word for bicycles?
The French word for bicycles is les vélos — masculine.
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