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I have a french question In french ear is une oreille but my ear is mon oreille. If ear is femm then why mon oreille why not ma???

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redmeercat

French is a euphonic language which means that the grammar sometimes changes to make it sound nicer. It's difficult to go from the 'a' vowel sound 'o' so instead we use the 'mon' form to make it easier and nicer to say.

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username5332452

Original post by redmeercat

Ok that’s makes sense so is this always the case for nouns starting with o ??

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redmeercat

In French you (usually) can't have two voiced vowels next you one another where one ends a word and another begins the next word. It's for the same reason as le/la goes to l' when there's a vowel :smile: