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le café
coffee
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How do you say café in French?
How do you pronounce café in French?
café is pronounced /lə kafe/ in French.
Example sentences
Le café noir est trop amer pour moi.
The black coffee is too bitter for me.
Ce petit café parisien ferme à minuit.
This small Parisian café closes at midnight.
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Why is it masculine?
Café is masculine in French. While the etymology tracing back through Italian "caffè" to Arabic "qahwa" is correct, the gender is better explained by the word's form and integration into French: borrowed words ending in -é often become masculine in French, and "café" was naturalized with masculine gender, likely influenced by similar French masculine nouns ending in -é (like "été", "blé", "pré"). The masculine gender is a fixed property of this word in modern French rather than retained through borrowing patterns.
What is the French word for coffee?
The French word for coffee is le café — masculine.
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