Noun: sou
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | sou |
| Plural m | sous |
Sample Sentences
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Tu peux me prêter des sous ? (Can you lend me some cash?)
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Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s'il te plaît. (That'll be six dollars and twenty-five cents, please.)
Nouns inflected like sou
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, inherited from Late Latin soldus, from Latin solidus. Doublet of solide. See also the form sol, which kept the historical spelling from Old French, even if it came to be pronounced like sou. See: Latin Nouns '
solidus'.
Verbs referencing "sou"
English Nouns
sou, Catalan Nouns
sou, Romanian Nouns
sou, English Nouns
xu.
Translations