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le bonheur
happiness
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How do you say bonheur in French?
How do you pronounce bonheur in French?
bonheur is pronounced /lə bɔnœʁ/ in French.
Example sentences
Le bonheur vrai est difficile à trouver dans ce monde moderne.
True happiness is difficult to find in this modern world. (masculine adjective 'vrai' and article 'le' show bonheur is masculine)
Son bonheur constant me rend heureux aussi.
His constant happiness makes me happy too. (masculine adjective 'constant' agrees with masculine noun bonheur, unlike 'constante' which would be feminine)
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Why is it masculine?
Bonheur is masculine because it derives from Old French "bon heur" (good luck/fortune), where "heur" comes from Latin "augurium" (omen/fate). However, the masculine gender is actually inherited from the Latin source word "augurium," which was masculine. When the Old French phrase "bon heur" lexicalized into the single word "bonheur," it retained the masculine gender of its etymological base "heur/augurium."
What is the French word for happiness?
The French word for happiness is le bonheur — masculine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | felicidad flips! | la | feminine |
| 🇮🇹 Italian | felicità flips! | la | feminine |
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | felicidade flips! | a | feminine |
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