Goal – le but

To remember that Goal is pronounced boot (but) in French, use the following mnemonic:

After scoring a goal, she kissed her boot (but) in celebration.

But is masculine, so it's le but. Imagine the early learner scoring a spectacular goal.

Examples of but (goal) in a sentence

Leur but est de réussir.

(Their goal is to succeed.)

Mon but est de devenir bilingue.

(My goal is to become bilingual.)

Elle a raté le but.

(She missed the goal.)