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les thés
teas
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How do you say thés in French?
How do you pronounce thés in French?
thés is pronounced /le te/ in French.
Example sentences
Le thé chaud que j'ai bu ce matin était délicieux.
The hot tea that I drank this morning was delicious.
Ce thé chinois est très rare et coûteux.
This Chinese tea is very rare and expensive.
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Why is it masculine?
Thés is masculine in French. While the etymology tracing it back through Portuguese "chá" to Chinese "chá" (茶) is plausible, the explanation for its masculine gender is speculative and misleading. In French, "thé" is masculine, but this is not exceptional—many French nouns ending in -é are masculine (e.g., "café", "blé", "été"). The word likely retained or was assigned masculine gender because of this productive suffix pattern in French rather than because it was treated as an exotic noun. The rule oversimplifies gender assignment by suggesting loanwords are unpredictable when French morphological patterns actually provide a clear explanation.
What is the French word for teas?
The French word for teas is les thés — masculine.
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