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Re: French gender

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 10, 2001, 7:34
En réponse à James <Kvasir_postia@...>:

> > hmm the first word i can think of the word "livre": > > un livre - a book > une livre - a pound >
They are homophonous words. One comes from Latin librus, the other from Latin libra. SO they are different words that just happen to be homophonous.
> also found one exception to the feminine -é rule: > le duché >
And le comté is another one :) . True, there are exceptions :) .
> -kvasir >
Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr