What does a French cow say?

In English, cows moo. In French, la vache mugit – the cow moos. Lorsqu'une vache mugit, elle dit meuh. – When a cow moos, she says 'meuh'.
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What does a cow say in words?

Cows — moo

The sound a cow makes is moo. This sound is officially called lowing, which comes from a word that means to shout, but you'll probably never hear it called that in real life.
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How do French cats say meow?

A cat's meow in French sounds pretty similar to the way it sounds in English—miaou.
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What do cows say in Europe?

1. Cow — muh (moo) Classic cow mooing sounds exactly the same when spoken, but the spelling changes a bit. In German you would spell it as muh, and in English you spell it as “moo.”
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What do cows say in German?

In German, the cow goes muh, the dog barks wau wau and the rooster crows kikeriki. The donkey cries iah, the horse wiehert and the cat says miau. The sheep baas bäh and the goat bleats mäh.
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How do dogs say woof in French?

French – waouh, waouh; ouahn, ouahn; vaf, vaf; wouf, wouf; wouaf, wouaf; jappe jappe.
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What do donkeys say in French?

Donkeys — Hi Han

L'âne brait means “the donkey brays,” and as with English, the verb also means to speak or sing too loudly for comfort.
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What does a French dog say?

Dogs, we all know, have a lot to say, and Francophone canines are no different. Un chien aboie (a dog barks), clabaude (barks when it's not supposed to during a hunt), glapit (yelps), grogne (growls), gronde (gives a low growl), hurle (howls), and jappe (yaps, yips).
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What is the sound of calf?

The sound a lamb or calf makes is a bleat.
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What do dogs say in Italian?

In Italy, dogs say bau. Cats say miao.
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What does a duck say in French?

In French, ducks say coin coin instead, which looks odd, but is actually pronounced 'kwa kwa'. The verb is cancaner (to quack), which also can mean 'to gossip'. In France, a chicken says cot cot codet, not cluck-cluck.
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What do Chinese dogs say?

In Mandarin Chinese, the most widely spoken language in the entire world, dogs say wāng wāng (pronounced more like “wong wong”), and in China's other major language, Cantonese, they say wōu-wōu. Across the Yellow Sea, Korean speakers say meong meong, which to English speakers sounds more like something a cat would say!
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Do cows moo in different languages?

Fun fact: Cows have “regional accents”

Language specialists from the University of London studied cows and they found that cows from different herds have different moos. The issue first came to their attention after dairy farmers noticed their cows made mooing sounds slightly differently.
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What sound does a cat make in China?

4. 喵 (miāo) – Cat. Here comes the cat 猫 (māo), and it makes the sound 喵 (miāo)!
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How do French say quack quack?

One of my favorite parts of studying French was learning that Francophone ducks say coin coin (“kwan kwan”), not quack; pigs make a guttural groin groin (“grwan grwan”) instead of oink; and cows produce a wonderfully scornful meuh.
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