🇫🇷 French

aubes

feminine

les aubes

dawns

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aubes
/lez ob/
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How do you say aubes in French?

IPA
/lez ob/

How do you pronounce aubes in French?

aubes is pronounced /lez ob/ in French.

Example sentences

L'aube rose illuminait l'horizon avec ses premiers rayons dorés.

The rosy dawn was illuminating the horizon with its first golden rays.

À l'aube nouvelle, la jeune femme s'est réveillée pleine d'espoir.

At the new dawn, the young woman woke up full of hope.

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Why is it feminine?

Aubes is feminine because it derives from the Latin "alba" (feminine), which meant "white" or "dawn," and Latin grammatical gender was preserved through Old French into Modern French. The word's feminine form became fixed in the language's evolution, even though the semantic shift from "whiteness" to specifically "dawn" occurred after the gender was already established.

What is the French word for dawns?

The French word for dawns is les aubes — feminine.

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