🇫🇷 français

faune

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

la faune

fauna

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faune
/la fon/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on faune en français ?

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/la fon/

How do you pronounce faune in français?

faune is pronounced /la fon/ in français.

Exemples de phrases

La faune africaine est extrêmement diversifiée et menacée par le changement climatique.

African fauna is extremely diverse and threatened by climate change.

La faune locale que nous avons observée était magnifique et fragile.

The local fauna that we observed was magnificent and fragile.

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Pourquoi est-ce feminine ?

Faune is feminine in French because it derives from Latin "fauna," the feminine form of the name of Faunus (a Roman god of nature), which was used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to denote the animal life of a region—and Latin feminine nouns ending in "-a" typically became feminine in French. It's an exception to the general rule that French words ending in "-e" can be either gender, but the Latin feminine origin accounts for its consistent feminine gender.

Comment dit-on fauna en français ?

En français, fauna se dit la faune — feminine.

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