🇫🇷 French

cafés

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

les cafés

coffees

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cafés
/le kafe/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cafés in French?

IPA
/le kafe/

How do you pronounce cafés in French?

cafés is pronounced /le 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?

Cafés 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 coffees?

The French word for coffees is les cafés — masculine.

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