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How do you say bouée in French?
How do you pronounce bouée in French?
bouée is pronounced /la bue/ in French.
Example sentences
La bouée rouge flotte sur l'eau calme du lac.
The red buoy floats on the calm water of the lake.
Cette bouée de sauvetage est indispensable pour les nageurs fatigués.
This life buoy is essential for tired swimmers.
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Why is it feminine?
Bouée is feminine because it derives from Latin "boia" (a chain or shackle), which was feminine in Latin. French retained this grammatical gender through the regular phonetic evolution of Latin feminine nouns ending in -a, which typically became -ée in French. The feminine gender was preserved despite the word's semantic shift from a restraining device to a floating marker.
What is the French word for buoy?
The French word for buoy is la bouée — feminine.
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