200 in French
deux cents
Updated May 2026
The plural-s appears
NUMERAL
200
FRENCH
deux cents
IPA
/dø.sɑ̃/
Breakdown
2 x 100 = 200 (s on cents)
Real sentence examples
“Le restaurant accueille deux cents clients par soir.”
“La cathedrale a deux cents ans cette annee.”
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Deux cents takes the plural-s because (a) cent is multiplied (more than one hundred) and (b) it ends the number. Compare: deux cent vingt = 220 (no s, because vingt follows). This is one of the few cases where French adds an s based on syntactic position, not just count.
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