🇫🇷 French

bouches

feminine

les bouches

mouths

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bouches
/le buʃ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say bouches in French?

IPA
/le buʃ/

How do you pronounce bouches in French?

bouches is pronounced /le buʃ/ in French.

Example sentences

La bouche grande ouverte, elle a crié très fort.

With her mouth wide open, she screamed very loudly.

Sa petite bouche rose était très expressive.

His/Her small pink mouth was very expressive.

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Why is it feminine?

Bouches is feminine because it derives from Latin "bucca" (cheek/mouth), which was a feminine noun in the first declension, and French inherited this grammatical gender along with the word itself. The -e ending in modern French also typically signals feminine nouns, reinforcing the gender that came from Latin.

What is the French word for mouths?

The French word for mouths is les bouches — feminine.

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