Contenues

Contenues is the feminine plural form of the past participle of the verb contenir, and it can also be the feminine plural form of the adjective contenu when it agrees with a feminine plural noun. In general, contenues indicates that several feminine-noun items are included, contained, or inside another object, document, or set.

In practice, it is commonly used in formal French to describe what is inside or included. Examples include: “Les substances contenues dans le produit,” meaning the substances contained in the product, and “Les informations contenues dans le rapport doivent être vérifiables,” meaning the information contained in the report must be verifiable. The masculine plural counterpart is contenus, and the feminine singular form is contenue. The form contenues follows standard agreement rules, agreeing in gender and number with the noun it modifies.

In technical or formal writing, contenues is a standard inflected form used to express containment or inclusion. It does not function as an independent lexical item with a separate meaning; its sense derives from the verb contenir or the adjective contenu, depending on the syntactic role.

Related terms include contenu (the noun meaning content) and contenir (the verb meaning to contain). Contenues is one of several inflected forms produced by ordinary French conjugation and adjective agreement rules.