🇫🇷 French

progrès

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Progrès is masculine in French. The article is les, so the full form is les progrès ("progresses").

MASCULINE

progrès is the plural of progrès

les progrès — progresses

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progrès
/le pʁɔɡʁɛ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say progrès in French?

IPA
/le pʁɔɡʁɛ/

How do you pronounce progrès in French?

progrès is pronounced /le pʁɔɡʁɛ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le progrès scientifique est remarquable cette année.

Scientific progress is remarkable this year.

Ce progrès technologique représente un grand pas en avant.

This technological progress represents a big step forward.

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Why is it masculine?

Progrès is masculine because it derives from the Latin "progressus" (past participle of "progredi"), which is a masculine noun in Latin; French retained the grammatical gender of its Latin source word. This is typical for many French nouns borrowed from Latin, where gender often follows the original Latin gender.

What is the French word for progresses?

The French word for progresses is les progrès — masculine.

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