Usage Note
chèvre also refers to goat's-milk cheese (fromage de chèvre), simply called un chèvre in informal speech. The male is le bouc. The idiom ménager la chèvre et le chou means to try to please everyone (literally 'to look after the goat and the cabbage').
Examples
"La chèvre broute l'herbe dans le pré."
Natural Translation
The goat grazes in the meadow.
Literal Translation
The goat grazes the grass in the meadow.
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