Learn do i refer to someone's hair as ses cheveux, les cheveux, or le cheveu in French. Build fluency with personalized exercises, chats, and video recommend...
In French, when talking about hair collectively, you usually say les cheveux (the hair). This refers to all the hair on someone's head (or body, if relevant).
ses cheveux means "her/his/its/their hair" (referring to a specific person, matching the subject's gender/number).le cheveu means "a hair strand," a single hair particle. It is rarely used in everyday speech except in certain fixed expressions or scientific contexts.Common examples:
J'adore ses cheveux. = I love her/his/your/ their hair.Il a perdu un cheveu. = He lost a hair (strand).Related Topics: Hair, Possessive Adjectives, Common French Nouns