Pourquoi est-ce que la chaise est une femme? Je sais pas.Ĭaption 6, Lionel L - Les genres Play Caption There is often no rhyme or reason for this, as Lionel jokingly points out: So, an object or concept is arbitrarily either masculine or feminine. Unfortunately, there is no such thing in French. However, when it comes to inanimate objects, you'd think it would make more sense to assign them a neuter gender, or “it”. It seems quite logical to ascribe a feminine gender to une fille (a girl) and a masculine gender to un garçon (a boy). Ĭaption 7, Yabla à Nancy - Le masculin et le féminin Play Caption The feminine is used for the word "fille," for example, "la fille". Le féminin s'utilise pour le mot "fille", par exemple, " la fille." The noun fille (girl) is feminine, so we say une fille (a girl) or la fille (the girl): Ĭaption 5, Yabla à Nancy - Le masculin et le féminin Play Captionįeminine nouns are introduced by the indefinite article une (a) or the definite article la (the). The masculine is used, for example, for the word "garçon." It's masculine: "Le garçon". Le masculin s'utilise par exemple pour le mot "garçon". For example, we say un garçon (a boy) or le garçon (the boy), and therefore garçon is masculine: Masculine nouns are preceded by the masculine indefinite article un (a) or the definite article le (the). Instead, it’s better to check the article that comes before it. In French, you can’t always guess the gender of a noun by its ending. ![]() For example, in Spanish, masculine nouns end in o, as in chico (boy), and feminine nouns end in a, as in chica (girl). Perhaps we can blame the Romans for this predicament, as most Romance languages (derived from Latin) assign a gender to nouns. You are lucky in English: you don't have all these gender and language problems.Ĭaption 24, Lionel L - Les genres Play Caption Vous êtes chanceux en anglais: vous avez pas tous ces problèmes de sexe et de langue. banner PLACEHOLDERĪs Lionel remarks in his lesson, English speakers don’t have to worry about the gender of nouns: So, every time you learn a new word, you will also need to memorize its gender, which is one of the difficulties of the French language. Unlike in English, all nouns are either masculine or feminine in French, without exception, whether they refer to a person, an animal, or an inanimate object.
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