pays

Meaning

1. land, country, region, nation
2. country

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɛ.i/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pays, from Old French pais, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).
See related terms. Cognates include Italian paese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish as país. Cognates in regional languages in France: Norman payis, Gallo peïs, Picard poaiyis, Bourguignon paiyis, Franco-Provençal payis, Occitan país, Corsican paese.

Sentences

La région est située au sud du pays .

The region is located in the south of the country.

Le qualificatif de reste toujours interdit dans le pays .

The qualifier of remains always prohibited in the country.

Le pays a qualifié un athlète de sexe masculin dans cette discipline .

The country qualified a male athlete in this discipline.

La dette du pays était colossale .

The country's debt was colossal.

La Dronne marque la limite ouest du pays .

The Dronne marks the western limit of the country.

Il comporte des interviews de participants et de dirigeants des deux pays .

Interviews were filmed with participants and leaders from both sides of the conflict.

Chacun de ces sentiers , long de plusieurs milliers de kilomètres , traverse plusieurs pays européens .

Each of these trails, several thousand kilometres long, crosses several European countries.

Sung-nam, un jeune peintre coréen , doit , pour échapper à une arrestation fuir son pays .

Sung-nam, a young Korean painter, must flee his country to escape arrest.