"Dozen" is an English equivalent of the French word "douzaine."
Specifically, the French word is a feminine noun. Its singular definite article is "la" ("the"). Its singular indefinite article is "une" ("a, one").
The pronunciation is "doo-zehn."
"Une douzaine" means "a dozen" in French. Example: Une douzaine d'oeufs= a dozen eggs
"A dozen" is an English equivalent of the French phrase une douzaine.Specifically, the feminine singular definite article une means "a, one". The feminine noun douzaine translates as "dozen". The pronunciation will be "yoon doo-zehn" in French.
The English word "dozen" is derived from the French "douzaine", meaning "a group of twelve things". Similar words exist in French for "quinzaine" (a group of 15), "vingtaine" (20) and "centaine" (100), though these do not have English equivalents.
A dozen = 12. The word comes from the old French word douzaine which means "a group of twelve".
''Une douzaine d'oeufs s'il vous plait''
une douzaine is one dozen in French. Therefore one less is 11.
twelve is "douze" in French and a dozen is 'une douzaine".
A dozen of anything is 12 (twelve). It doesn't matter if you are counting feathers or stamps. The English word dozen comes from the old form of the French word douzaine, meaning "a group of twelve". Because of that there are exactly 12 stamps in a dozen, regardless of their denomination.
Twelve cows can be called a flink, a dozen head or a herd of cows.
The english word 'or' is spelled 'ou' in French.
This is the same in French as it is in English.
The English word gold has has the same meaning as the French word or.