2018 in French
deux mille dix-huit
Updated May 2026
France wins the FIFA World Cup
NUMERAL
2 018
FRENCH
deux mille dix-huit
IPA
/dø.mil.diz.ɥit/
Breakdown
2000 + 18 = 2018
Real sentence examples
“La France a remporte la Coupe du monde en deux mille dix-huit.”
“En deux mille dix-huit, le mouvement des Gilets jaunes a commence.”
Year context
In 2018, France won the FIFA World Cup on 15 July 2018, defeating Croatia 4-2 in the final in Moscow. The Gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement began on 17 November 2018 with protests against fuel-tax rises.
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Deux mille dix-huit shows the liaison /diz.ɥit/ where the s of dix links into the h-aspirate-blocked huit. The h is aspirate so no liaison-/z/ is heard from mille into dix.
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