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les travaux
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Comment dit-on travaux en français ?
How do you pronounce travaux in français?
travaux is pronounced /le tʁavo/ in français.
Exemples de phrases
Le travail difficile m'a épuisé.
The difficult work exhausted me. (masculine adjective 'difficile' agrees with masculine noun 'travail'; masculine past participle 'épuisé' agrees with masculine subject)
Mon travail intéressant me passionne.
My interesting work fascinates me. (masculine possessive adjective 'mon' and masculine adjective 'intéressant' must agree with masculine 'travail'; masculine past participle 'passionne' shows the masculine subject receives the action)
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Pourquoi est-ce masculine ?
Travaux is masculine in French. While it does derive from the Latin "tripalium" (a three-pronged agricultural or torture instrument), the gender retention from Latin to French is not reliably predictable and cannot be explained solely by semantic association with pain or labor. French grammatical gender is largely arbitrary from a modern perspective, and the masculine gender of "travail" is simply a historical accident of how this word evolved through Old French, rather than being preserved due to the semantic content of painful labor.
Comment dit-on works en français ?
En français, works se dit les travaux — masculine.
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