🇫🇷 French

retours

Retours is masculine in French. The article is les, so the full form is les retours ("returns").

MASCULINE

retours is the plural of retour

les retours — returns

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retours
/le ʁətuʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say retours in French?

IPA
/le ʁətuʁ/

How do you pronounce retours in French?

retours is pronounced /le ʁətuʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le retour précoce du voyageur a surpris sa famille.

The early return of the traveler surprised his family.

Son dernier retour à la maison était mémorable et inoubliable.

His last return home was memorable and unforgettable.

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Why is it masculine?

Retours is masculine because it derives from Latin "retornus" (a return, from "retornare" meaning to turn back). Latin masculine nouns in -us typically became masculine nouns in French ending in -our/-or, following the regular pattern of gender preservation from Latin to French.

What is the French word for returns?

The French word for returns is les retours — masculine.

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