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la joue
cheek
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How do you say joue in French?
How do you pronounce joue in French?
joue is pronounced /la ʒu/ in French.
Example sentences
La joue rouge de l'enfant indique qu'elle a de la fièvre.
The child's red cheek indicates that she has a fever.
Elle a une petite joue adorable qui rend son sourire encore plus charmant.
She has an adorable small cheek that makes her smile even more charming.
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Why is it feminine?
Joue (cheek) is feminine because it descends from Latin "gena," which was feminine in gender, and French retained this grammatical gender through its regular sound changes. Like most Romance language nouns, French inherited the gender of its Latin predecessors rather than following a phonetic rule.
What is the French word for cheek?
The French word for cheek is la joue — feminine.
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