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# fils

«fils» in Mova's school dictionary: **the French word for son; it sounds like «feess» to an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

word (French); noun (a fils, plural fils — money)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (French) «Fils» is the French word for son; it sounds like «feess» to an English ear and is not an English word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#m1)

2) In English, «fils» is sometimes put after a French name to mean «the son» or «junior», as in «Dumas fils», to tell a son apart from his father with the same name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#m2)

3) (money) A fils is a small coin, a fraction of the dinar or dirham, in some Arab countries like Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In French lessons, «fils» comes up in family words: «mon fils» (my son), «père et fils» (father and son). Some shops are named «... et Fils» (and Son). In maths problems about world money, 1000 fils = 1 Kuwaiti dinar, or 100 fils = 1 UAE dirham. Phrases: «père et fils», «Dumas fils».

### examples

- In French class we learned that «fils» means son. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#x1)
- The bakery sign said «Martin et Fils». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#x2)
- Alexandre Dumas fils wrote different books from his father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#x3)
- The drink cost 500 fils in Kuwait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#x4)
- «Mon fils» means «my son» in French. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#x5)
- The old coin was worth only a few fils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/#x6)

### note

French: the «l» and «s» spelling is tricky; it is said «feess». Plural in French is also «fils». As money, the plural is «fils». Not an English word for son.

### In the corpora

- [An only child is fille unique (a girl) or fils unique (a boy); enfant unique works for anyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/14-my-family/11/)
- [le fils (the son) sounds like "FEESS": the l is silent and the s is said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/14-my-family/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fils» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fils/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.