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À notes the characteristic of a person or an object. Here, blond hair is a component of the woman.
Aux = à+les because the blond hair is specified. Un cheveu is a strand of hair, as such it can be counted.
Every time that’s the case we use Aux?
When something is specified? Depending on what it is, the article au changes.
Un homme au manteau blanc
Une femme à la robe longue
Un collègue à l'oreille coupée
Un enfant aux cheveux blonds
But the depending on what it is what does it really depend on
Are there rules
Does it depend on the person of the characteristic
Whether it’s a guy or girl
Because for un homme you said au
And une femme you said à la
That's irrelevant because you can also have "une femme au manteau blanc" and "un homme à la robe longue".
It only depends on the gender and number of the component in question.
Manteau is masculine singular so you use au, robe is feminine singular so you use à la.
How about the last one
Enfant means child
So aux ?
Cheveux is masculine plural so aux is used. Enfant has nothing to do with the agreement.
À only serves to connect a specified characteristic to the person or thing. Since there is something specified, a definite article is used and agrees in gender and number with said characteristic and can be combined with à when possible (à+le = au, à+les = aux).
Un homme à + characteristic
Let's say the characteristic is manteau blanc. Since it's a specified element, we add the definite article which is le because manteau is masculine singular: le manteau blanc.
We combine it with "un homme à": un homme à + le manteau blanc
We then combine à and le because it's a mandatory contraction: un homme au manteau blanc.
Whataver comes before à never even comes into the agreement equation.
Ohh
I get you
That make way more sense
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