🇫🇷 French

vieillesses

feminine

les vieillesses

old ages

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vieillesses
/le vjɛjɛs/
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How do you say vieillesses in French?

IPA
/le vjɛjɛs/

How do you pronounce vieillesses in French?

vieillesses is pronounced /le vjɛjɛs/ in French.

Example sentences

La vieillesse est une période naturelle et inévitable de la vie humaine.

Old age is a natural and inevitable period of human life.

Ma grand-mère a traversé sa vieillesse avec une grande dignité et une sagesse remarquable.

My grandmother went through her old age with great dignity and remarkable wisdom.

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Why is it feminine?

Vieillesses is feminine because it derives from the Latin "vetustas" (also feminine), which itself comes from the adjective "vetus" (old); French inherited the feminine gender along with the noun form, as Latin abstract nouns ending in "-tas" were typically feminine and often became "-esse" nouns in Old French.

What is the French word for old ages?

The French word for old ages is les vieillesses — feminine.

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