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tidal tundra
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Can someone tell my why she used aux there

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cheveux is not a plural I think

sonic solar
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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.

tidal tundra
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Oh

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Thank you i didn’t know

tidal tundra
sonic solar
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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

tidal tundra
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Are there rules

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Does it depend on the person of the characteristic

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Whether it’s a guy or girl

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Because for un homme you said au

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And une femme you said à la

sonic solar
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That's irrelevant because you can also have "une femme au manteau blanc" and "un homme à la robe longue".

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It only depends on the gender and number of the component in question.

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Manteau is masculine singular so you use au, robe is feminine singular so you use à la.

tidal tundra
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Enfant means child

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So aux ?

sonic solar
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Cheveux is masculine plural so aux is used. Enfant has nothing to do with the agreement.

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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).

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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.

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Whataver comes before à never even comes into the agreement equation.

tidal tundra
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That make way more sense

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Tysm

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I appreciate it