Father in French 🇫🇷

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**Tips to remember the French word ‘père’:**
– Associate ‘père’ with the English ‘pair,’ as a father is part of the ‘pair’ that forms a family with the mother.
– Remember the idiom “Father knows best,” converting it to “Père knows best” as a mnemonic.
– Visualize a pear (which phonetically resembles ‘père’) wearing a dad’s hat to create a quirky association.

**Explanations:**
– ‘Père’ is the French word for ‘father.’
– It is pronounced as /pɛʁ/, where the final ‘e’ is mute, and the ‘r’ is pronounced in the throat, which is typical of French ‘r’ sounds.

**Other words that mean the same thing:**
– ‘Papa’ which is an informal and affectionate term, much like ‘dad’ in English.
– ‘Géniteur’ which is a more formal term that refers to a biological father.

**Alternate meanings and slang:**
– In religious contexts, ‘père’ can be used to refer to a priest, similar to ‘Father’ in English (e.g., Père Marcel).
– In a more historical or respectful sense, ‘père’ can be used as “the father of,” as in a founder or creator of a movement (e.g., Père de la Nation).

**Examples of sentences that use it:**
– Mon père travaille dans un bureau. (My father works in an office.)
– Elle rend visite à son père ce week-end. (She is visiting her father this weekend.)
– Le père de la psychanalyse est Sigmund Freud. (The father of psychoanalysis is Sigmund Freud.)

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