Noun: fois
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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J'y vais cinq fois par mois. (I go there five times a month.)
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Je lui ai parlé pour la première fois il y a des années. (I talked to him for the first time a few years ago.)
Nouns inflected like fois
assistance médicale à la procréation,
ignobilité,
Léticie,
funérailles d'État,
capacité juridique,
selles,
pensée latérale,
histoire de l'art,
saucée,
témazépam,
sloche,
dulcamarine,
soeurs,
fièvre aphteuse,
sinité,
soûrat,
études supérieures,
amatonormativité,
alexithymie,
aire de Wernicke, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French foys, from Old French foiz, from earlier feiz, from Latin vicem. The reason for the development of an initial /f/, instead of the expected /v/, is not entirely clear. It may be the result of voicing assimilation to the final consonants of numerals such as deus (“two”) or set (“seven”), which would have often preceded the word. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish vez. See: Latin Nouns '
vicis', Spanish Nouns '
vez'.
Verbs referencing "fois"
English Nouns
vicissitude.
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