🇫🇷 French

bonheurs

masculine

les bonheurs

happiness

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bonheurs
/le bɔnœʁ/
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How do you say bonheurs in French?

IPA
/le bɔnœʁ/

How do you pronounce bonheurs in French?

bonheurs is pronounced /le 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?

Bonheurs 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 les bonheurs — masculine.

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