🇫🇷 French

ventres

masculine

les ventres

bellies

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ventres
/le vɑ̃tʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say ventres in French?

IPA
/le vɑ̃tʁ/

How do you pronounce ventres in French?

ventres is pronounced /le vɑ̃tʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le ventre rond du bébé était adorable après son repas.

The baby's round belly was adorable after his meal.

Son ventre vide criait famine après trois jours sans nourriture.

His empty belly cried out in hunger after three days without food.

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Why is it masculine?

Ventres is masculine because it derives from Latin "ventrem" (accusative of "venter"), which was a masculine noun in Latin, and French retained this grammatical gender when the word evolved phonetically into "ventre." The Latin root itself likely comes from an Indo-European base related to concepts of swelling or distension, though the gender assignment appears arbitrary rather than motivated by linguistic rules.

What is the French word for bellies?

The French word for bellies is les ventres — masculine.

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