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Fleurs is feminine in French. The article is les, so the full form is les fleurs ("flowers").
FEMININEfleurs is the plural of fleur
les fleurs — flowers
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How do you say fleurs in French?
How do you pronounce fleurs in French?
fleurs is pronounced /le flœʁ/ in French.
Example sentences
La fleur rouge est plus belle que la fleur blanche.
The red flower is more beautiful than the white flower.
J'ai cueilli une petite fleur jaune dans le jardin de ma grand-mère.
I picked a small yellow flower in my grandmother's garden.
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Why is it feminine?
Fleurs is feminine because it derives from Latin "florem" (accusative of "flos"), a third declension masculine noun. In Old French, the oblique case form "florem" regularly developed into "fleur". The feminine gender in French likely resulted from analogical association with other feminine nouns ending in -eur (such as "peur", "douleur", "couleur") and phonetic convergence with feminine noun patterns, rather than following the original Latin gender.
What is the French word for flowers?
The French word for flowers is les fleurs — feminine.
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