🇫🇷 French

vert

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

le vert

green

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vert
/lə vɛʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vert in French?

IPA
/lə vɛʁ/

How do you pronounce vert in French?

vert is pronounced /lə vɛʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le vert est ma couleur préférée pour peindre les murs de ma chambre.

Green is my favorite color for painting the walls of my bedroom.

Ce vert foncé que tu as choisi est vraiment magnifique et très élégant.

This dark green that you chose is truly magnificent and very elegant.

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Why is it masculine?

Vert is masculine because it derives from Latin "viridis" (green). In Latin, "viridis" is a third-declension adjective that functioned as masculine/feminine/neuter depending on context, but when borrowed into Old French, color adjectives like "vert" were typically treated as masculine by default. French color adjectives generally do not follow a single productive gender rule; their gender is largely lexicalized and must be learned individually.

What is the French word for green?

The French word for green is le vert — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianverdeilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseverdeomasculine

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