🇫🇷 French

bébés

Bébés is masculine in French. The article is les, so the full form is les bébés ("babies").

MASCULINE

bébés is the plural of bébé

les bébés — babies

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bébés
/le bebe/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say bébés in French?

IPA
/le bebe/

How do you pronounce bébés in French?

bébés is pronounced /le bebe/ in French.

Example sentences

Le bébé est très adorable et il dort paisiblement dans son petit lit.

The baby is very adorable and he is sleeping peacefully in his little bed.

Notre bébé a reçu un beau cadeau pour son premier anniversaire.

Our baby received a beautiful gift for his first birthday.

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Why is it masculine?

Bébés is masculine in French. While it may derive from onomatopoeia related to baby sounds (balbus), the gender in French is conventional and does not follow from the etymology. French nouns have fixed genders that must be learned; "bébé" is masculine and takes the article "le" (le bébé).

What is the French word for babies?

The French word for babies is les bébés — masculine.

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