🇫🇷 francese

café

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

le café

coffee

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café
/lə kafe/
← masculine feminine →

Come si dice café in francese?

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/lə kafe/

How do you pronounce café in francese?

café is pronounced /lə kafe/ in francese.

Frasi di esempio

Le café noir est trop amer pour moi.

The black coffee is too bitter for me.

Ce petit café parisien ferme à minuit.

This small Parisian café closes at midnight.

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Perché è masculine?

Café is masculine in French. While the etymology tracing back through Italian "caffè" to Arabic "qahwa" is correct, the gender is better explained by the word's form and integration into French: borrowed words ending in -é often become masculine in French, and "café" was naturalized with masculine gender, likely influenced by similar French masculine nouns ending in -é (like "été", "blé", "pré"). The masculine gender is a fixed property of this word in modern French rather than retained through borrowing patterns.

Come si dice coffee in francese?

In francese, coffee si dice le café — masculine.

Genere nelle altre lingue

LinguaParolaArticoloGenere
🇪🇸 Spanishcaféelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiancaffèilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesecaféomasculine

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