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les chaises
chairs
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How do you say chaises in French?
How do you pronounce chaises in French?
chaises is pronounced /le ʃɛz/ in French.
Example sentences
La chaise rouge est cassée, mais la chaise bleue est encore solide.
The red chair is broken, but the blue chair is still solid.
Cette vieille chaise en bois est très belle et très confortable.
This old wooden chair is very beautiful and very comfortable.
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Why is it feminine?
Chaises is feminine because it derives from Latin "cathedra" (seat/chair), which is feminine. When the word evolved into Old French and then French, it retained its feminine gender from its Latin ancestor. Like many French nouns, "chaise" inherited the grammatical gender of its Latin source word.
What is the French word for chairs?
The French word for chairs is les chaises — feminine.
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