Holidays – les vacances

To remember that Holidays is pronounced vah-kohns (vacances) in French, use the following mnemonic:

Whenever she went on holiday she took her vacuum cleaner as a consequence (vacances) of her obsession with keeping everywhere tidy.

Vacances is feminine, but because it's a plural word, it's les vacances. Imagine our lady Labrador flying away for her holidays.

Vacances is feminine, but it's a plural word and so it's les vacances.