années
French, noun/a.ne/
années is spelled A-N-N-É-E-S (6 letters) and appears 427 times per million words in written French, the 192nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Années is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of année” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décennie commençant en multiple de dix”.
What does années mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of année
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Décennie commençant en multiple de dix. 2. Les différents âges de la vie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce années?
- /a.ne/
- \a.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is années in French?
années appears 427 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).