Accordécole
l' école
school
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How do you say école in French?
How do you pronounce école in French?
école is pronounced /lekɔl/ in French.
Example sentences
La nouvelle école est très grande et moderne.
The new school is very large and modern.
Cette vieille école française a été restaurée récemment.
This old French school was recently restored.
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Why is it feminine?
École is feminine because it derives from the Latin "schola," which was feminine in gender, and this grammatical gender was preserved through Old French into modern French. The Latin term itself may have roots in Greek "scholē" (σχολή), originally meaning leisure or free time before coming to mean a place of learning.
What is the French word for school?
The French word for school is l' école — feminine.
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