🇫🇷 francês

thé

masculine

le thé

tea

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thé
/lə te/
← masculine feminine →

Como se diz thé em francês?

AFI
/lə te/

How do you pronounce thé in francês?

thé is pronounced /lə te/ in francês.

Frases de exemplo

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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Por que é masculine?

Thé 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.

Como se diz tea em francês?

Em francês, tea diz-se le thé — masculine.

Gênero em outros idiomas

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Pratique com o Accord

Deslize centenas de palavras e domine o gênero gramatical em francês.

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