écrites

Écrites is the feminine plural past participle of the verb écrire in French. It is most commonly used as an adjective meaning “written” and agrees with a feminine plural noun, as in des lettres écrites (the written letters) or des notes écrites (the written notes).

In tense construction, écrites appears in compound forms. With the auxiliary être, it forms part of the predicate and agrees with the subject: les lettres écrites ont été publiées (the written letters have been published). With the auxiliary avoir, the participle agrees with a preceding direct object, for example: les lettres que nous avons écrites (the letters that we have written).

The full set of past participle forms of écrire is: écrits (masculine plural), écrit (masculine singular), écrite (feminine singular), and écrites (feminine plural). Écrites specifically marks feminine plural agreement and is not used as a standalone noun; the masculine plural écrits is the usual noun meaning “writings” or “works.”

Etymology traces écrites to the verb écrire, itself from Latin scribere. The term appears in a wide range of contexts where something has been produced in written form, from everyday notes to formal documents. It is important to distinguish écrites from écrits, the masculine plural form that functions not as an adjective but as a masculine noun meaning “writings” or “works.”

Common collocations include expressions like documents écrits, instructions écrites, and procédures écrites. The word commonly appears in academic, legal, and administrative French to denote material that exists in written rather than oral form. See also écrire, écrit, écriture.