🇫🇷 French

tâche

feminine

la tâche

task

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tâche
/la taʃ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say tâche in French?

IPA
/la taʃ/

How do you pronounce tâche in French?

tâche is pronounced /la taʃ/ in French.

Example sentences

La tâche difficile que j'ai complétée hier m'a prise toute la journée.

The difficult task that I completed yesterday took up my whole day.

Cette nouvelle tâche est très importante pour notre projet.

This new task is very important for our project.

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Why is it feminine?

Tâche is feminine because it derives from Latin "tasca," which was a feminine noun. French retained this grammatical gender through regular phonetic evolution, as Latin feminine nouns in -a typically became feminine nouns in -e in French. The word has remained feminine throughout Old French and Modern French.

What is the French word for task?

The French word for task is la tâche — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishtarealafeminine

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