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la tête
head
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How do you say tête in French?
How do you pronounce tête in French?
tête is pronounced /la tɛt/ in French.
Example sentences
La tête blonde de la petite fille était couverte d'un chapeau rouge.
The blonde head of the little girl was covered with a red hat.
Sa tête était posée sur l'oreiller moelleux et elle s'endormit immédiatement.
Her head was resting on the soft pillow and she fell asleep immediately.
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Why is it feminine?
Tête is feminine because it derives from the Latin "testa" (originally meaning "earthenware pot" or "shell," later used metaphorically for "head"), which was a feminine noun in Latin, and French inherited this grammatical gender through regular sound changes that dropped the final -a ending. The semantic shift from "pot" to "head" likely occurred through the metaphorical comparison of the head's rounded shape to a pot or vessel.
What is the French word for head?
The French word for head is la tête — feminine.
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