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le fossé
ditch
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How do you say fossé in French?
How do you pronounce fossé in French?
fossé is pronounced /lə fɔse/ in French.
Example sentences
Le fossé profond séparait les deux villages depuis des siècles.
The deep ditch had been separating the two villages for centuries.
Ce fossé dangereux était trop large pour être franchi sans équipement spécial.
This dangerous ditch was too wide to be crossed without special equipment.
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Why is it masculine?
Fossé is masculine because it derives from Latin "fossus" (dug), the past participle of "fodere" (to dig), which carried masculine gender that persisted through Old French into Modern French. Latin past participles used as nouns typically retained their original gender, and masculine forms like "fossus" naturally became masculine nouns in the Romance languages.
What is the French word for ditch?
The French word for ditch is le fossé — masculine.
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