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How Do You Tell In French If A Word Is Masculine Or Feminine?

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How Do You Tell In French If A Word Is Masculine Or Feminine?

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French gender is a constant headache for many students of French. Why is manteau masculine and montre feminine, when both men and women wear both of them? What’s the logic behind gender in French? There’s no simple answer to this question, and no simple way to know the gender of every noun other than just learning the gender with each word. There are, however, some patterns in suffixes and word endings – certain endings tend to indicate masculine nouns, while other endings favor feminine nouns. As you can see by the lists of exceptions, these gender patterns are not fool-proof, but they can help you to figure out the gender of many French nouns. Note that the second column has exceptions to the rule, not examples. Masculine Suffix Exceptions, -age une image, single-syllable words: une cage, une plage, etc. -b -ble une cible, une étable, une fable, une table -c la fac (apocope of la faculté) -cle une boucle -d -de la bride, la merde, la méthode, la pinède; -ade, -nde, -ude endings -é la

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