sœur – French noun declension

French noun forms of sœur

Noun: sœur
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fsœur
Plural fsœurs

Sample Sentences

  • Quel âge a ta sœur ? (How old is your sister?)
  • Bonjour, ma sœur. (Hello, sister.)
  • Comment allez-vous, sœur Marie ? (How are you, Sister Mary?)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French soeur, from Old French suer (nominative), from Latin soror (cf. also the Old French oblique form seror from the Latin accusative sorōrem), from Proto-Italic *swezōr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. See: Latin Nouns 'soror'.

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