Re: French gender
| From: | James <kvasir_postia@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 7, 2001, 5:42 |
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well not a francophone here but it is my 3rd language...
after all these years of learning french it can be almost natural to
predict the gender of words... at least most of them.
These are SOME of the general patterns, but remember there are always
exceptions!
(what i've found is that it's much easier identifying fem. nouns)
Masculine:
-eau: le gateau, le cadeau, le bureau
-ment: le département
-in: le matin
-age: le mariage; le visage
-isme: le féminisme
-re: le poivre
Feminine
-lle/-tte/-sse: la belle, la crevette, la fesse (hehe), la feuille
-é: la beauté, la fierté
-euse: la danceuse
-tion/-sion: la création, la pression
-ie: la librarie, la fantasie
-que/-gue: la fatique, la morgue
-ence/-ance: la violence, la puissance
-ine: la poitrine
-ure: la facture la mesure
-ière: la lumière, la prière
-kvasir
--- In conlang@y..., D Tse <exponent@T...> wrote:
Just a question to all the Francophones on the list... is there any
way to predict the gender of at least some words in French by their
terminals, as you can in Italian, Spanish, etc?
Imperative
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