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beau

beautiful

adjective BOH Common

Also means

handsome

Usage Note

Beau shifts to bel before a vowel — un bel homme — and to belle for feminine nouns, with the plural beaux. It also describes fine weather in il fait beau, and lives on in avoir beau faire (to try in vain) and the in-laws prefix beau-père.

Examples

"Quel beau paysage !"

Natural Translation

What a beautiful landscape!

Literal Translation

What beautiful landscape

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