Accordmusée
Musée is masculin in français. The article is le, so the full form is le musée ("museum").
MASCULINle musée
museum
ESSAIE
Comment dit-on musée en français ?
How do you pronounce musée in français?
musée is pronounced /lə myze/ in français.
Exemples de phrases
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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Pourquoi est-ce masculin ?
Musée 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.
Comment dit-on museum en français ?
En français, museum se dit le musée — masculine.
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