🇫🇷 French

bontés

feminine

les bontés

kindnesses

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bontés
/le bɔ̃te/
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How do you say bontés in French?

IPA
/le bɔ̃te/

How do you pronounce bontés in French?

bontés is pronounced /le bɔ̃te/ in French.

Example sentences

La bonté naturelle de cette femme l'a rendue célèbre dans tout le village.

The natural kindness of this woman made her famous throughout the entire village.

Sa grande bonté était si évidente qu'on ne pouvait pas la confondre avec de la faiblesse.

Her great kindness was so obvious that one could not confuse it with weakness.

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Why is it feminine?

Bontés is feminine because it derives from Latin "bonitas" (-itas), a suffix that consistently produced feminine nouns in Romance languages by inheriting the feminine gender of Latin's -itas ending. This Latin feminine suffix became -té in French, which remains a reliably feminine gender marker in modern French.

What is the French word for kindnesses?

The French word for kindnesses is les bontés — feminine.

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