Re: French gender
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 9, 2001, 8:55 |
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En réponse à laokou <laokou@...>:
>
> Mais attention! Je viens de découvirir le mot "le dominion"! C'en a fait
> une
> alors :) (This doesn't work in Spanish where it's "el dominio").
>
Sorry to disappoint you, but that's no exception. Only the -tion and -sion
endings (coming from Latin -tio, -tionis and -sio,-sionis) are regularly
feminine (the exceptions like "cation" come from the fact that the ending is
not -tion, but -ion (reflected also in pronunciation)). All other -ion endings
are regularly masculine.
Christophe.
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