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la chèvre
goat
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How do you say chèvre in French?
How do you pronounce chèvre in French?
chèvre is pronounced /la ʃɛvʁ/ in French.
Example sentences
La chèvre blanche a donné beaucoup de lait cette année.
The white goat gave a lot of milk this year.
Cette petite chèvre noire est très agile et curieuse.
This small black goat is very agile and curious.
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Why is it feminine?
Chèvre is feminine because it derives from Latin "capra," which was feminine in gender, and French retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes (Latin -a endings typically became feminine in Romance languages). The word's gender has been consistent since Old French and reflects the natural sex of the female goat that the word originally denoted.
What is the French word for goat?
The French word for goat is la chèvre — feminine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | cabra | la | feminine |
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