Accordvilles
les villes
cities
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How do you say villes in French?
How do you pronounce villes in French?
villes is pronounced /le vil/ in French.
Example sentences
La ville française est très ancienne et magnifique.
The French city is very old and magnificent.
Cette petite ville côtière était autrefois prospère.
This small coastal city was once prosperous.
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Why is it feminine?
Villes is feminine because it derives from the Latin "villa" (a country estate or house), which was a feminine noun in Latin, and French retained the grammatical gender of its Latin source words. The feminine form persisted through Old French and into modern French, making it one of many French nouns whose gender is inherited directly from Latin.
What is the French word for cities?
The French word for cities is les villes — feminine.
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