🇫🇷 French

écharpes

feminine

les écharpes

scarves

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écharpes
/lez eʃaʁp/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say écharpes in French?

IPA
/lez eʃaʁp/

How do you pronounce écharpes in French?

écharpes is pronounced /lez eʃaʁp/ in French.

Example sentences

L'écharpe rouge que j'ai achetée est très chaude et confortable.

The red scarf that I bought is very warm and comfortable.

Ma nouvelle écharpe bleue est tombée dans la rue; je l'ai cherchée partout.

My new blue scarf fell into the street; I looked for it everywhere.

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Why is it feminine?

Écharpes is feminine. While the word does have Latin origins related to fastening or binding, the specific etymology traced to "scappa" is uncertain. The feminine gender is consistent with French grammatical patterns, but the exact historical pathway from Latin to Old French and the role of semantic fields in gender assignment cannot be definitively established from the proposed etymology alone.

What is the French word for scarves?

The French word for scarves is les écharpes — feminine.

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