mois

Meaning

1. month
2. period, menstruation

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mwa/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French moys, from Old French mois, from earlier meis, from Latin mēnsis.
Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Occitan mes, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.

Sentences

Les journées de ski sont facturées le mois suivant .

Ski days are charged the following month.

Les priver de deux cent cinquante euros chaque mois est donc profondément injuste .

Depriving them of two hundred and fifty euros each month is therefore deeply unfair.

Bordeleau, lui , manque neuf mois de compétition .

Bordeleau, on the other hand, is missing nine months of competition.

Il a lieu tous les ans au mois de juin à Todi, en Italie .

It takes place every year in June in Todi, Italy.

Quelques mois plus tard , il participe part au Tour d'Espagne.

A few months later, he took part in the Tour of Spain.

Avril est le mois de la floraison .

April is the month of flowering.

Il est écarté des parquets durant quatre mois .

He was removed from the floor for four months.

Il rapporte sa découverte le mois suivant et l'île est baptisée en son nom .

He reported his discovery the following month and the island was named after him.