French - pencil shapener

pinksmartie | 17:35 Tue 22nd Aug 2006 | People & Places

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Is it:
Une taille crayon
or
Un taille crayon?

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Its masculine so it is Le or Un.

yes indeed. If it was feminine would it not be spelt 'crayonne'?

SteveD

In fact it's "le taille-crayon" (with a hyphen). The plural is "taille-crayons".

'a pencil sharpener'

is

un taille-crayons

A good site for quick (not sure about accurate) reference is http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

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