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En hiver, elle porte un bonnet.

En hiver, elle porte un bonnet.
In winter, she wears a woolly hat.
From Lesson 238:Clothes and the wardrobe·French

Breakdown of En hiver, elle porte un bonnet.

elle
she
porter
to wear
l'hiver
the winter (m)
le bonnet
the woolly hat

Questions & Answers about En hiver, elle porte un bonnet.

Why do we say en hiver instead of using dans or adding an article?
In French, to say "in [a season]", you use the preposition en directly before the noun, with no article: en hiver (in winter), en été (in summer), and en automne (in autumn). The only exception you need to remember is spring, which is au printemps.
Does porte mean she is in the act of putting the hat on?
No, porter describes the continuous state of wearing clothes (or carrying something). If you want to talk about the action of getting dressed and putting on a hat, you would use the verb mettre instead: elle met un bonnet.
Is un bonnet exactly the same as an English "bonnet"?
No, it is a bit of a false friend. In English, a "bonnet" is usually a specific type of hat tied under the chin (or a car hood). In French, un bonnet is the standard word for any warm, knitted winter hat, like a beanie or a woolly hat. If she were wearing a regular hat with a brim, it would be un chapeau.

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