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masculine
le vélo
bicycle
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vélo
/lə velo/
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feminine →
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How do you say vélo in French?
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/lə velo/
How do you pronounce vélo in French?
vélo is pronounced /lə velo/ in French.
Example sentences
Le vélo rouge est tombé dans la rue.
The red bicycle fell into the street.
Mon vélo préféré est cassé, donc je dois en acheter un nouveau.
My favorite bicycle is broken, so I have to buy a new one.
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Why is it masculine?
Vélo is a colloquial shortening of "vélocipède" (from Latin "velox" meaning fast and "pes" meaning foot), which is masculine, and the abbreviated form retained the gender of its source word. Like many French abbreviations, it simply inherited the grammatical gender of the full word it came from.
What is the French word for bicycle?
The French word for bicycle is le vélo — masculine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | bicicleta flips! | la | feminine |
| 🇮🇹 Italian | bicicletta flips! | la | feminine |
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | bicicleta flips! | a | feminine |
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