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la queue
tail
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How do you say queue in French?
How do you pronounce queue in French?
queue is pronounced /la kø/ in French.
Example sentences
La queue longue du paon est magnifique et très colorée.
The peacock's long tail is magnificent and very colorful.
Elle attend dans la queue avec ses amies patientes.
She waits in the line with her patient female friends.
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Why is it feminine?
Queue is feminine in French because it derives from the Latin "cauda" (tail), which was a feminine noun in Latin, and French inherited this grammatical gender along with the word. The feminine ending "-ue" in Modern French also reinforced this classification, though the gender itself traces directly back to Latin.
What is the French word for tail?
The French word for tail is la queue — feminine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇹 Italian | coda | la | feminine |
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