🇫🇷 francês

musées

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

les musées

museums

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musées
/le myze/
← masculine feminine →

Como se diz musées em francês?

AFI
/le myze/

How do you pronounce musées in francês?

musées is pronounced /le myze/ in francês.

Frases de exemplo

Le musée national est fermé le lundi.

The national museum is closed on Mondays.

Ce musée archéologique est très ancien et intéressant.

This archaeological museum is very old and interesting.

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Por que é masculine?

Musées is masculine. While it does derive from Latin "museum" (borrowed from Greek "mouseion"), the gender assignment in French is better explained by the French suffix "-ée" (from Latin "-ata"). However, "musée" is actually an exception: most French nouns ending in "-ée" are feminine (e.g., "journée", "année"), but "musée" is masculine. This irregularity is due to its Latin neuter ending "-eum" (later masculine in Latin) being reanalyzed in French, where it became associated with the masculine "é" ending found in past participles and some masculine nouns.

Como se diz museums em francês?

Em francês, museums diz-se les musées — masculine.

Pratique com o Accord

Deslize centenas de palavras e domine o gênero gramatical em francês.

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