Re: word gender identity
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 1, 2003, 18:45 |
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En réponse à Henrik Theiling :
>And French seems to have some words that change gender from singular
>to plural I think (l'orgue -- the organ?).
It's indeed an example: "l'orgue" is masculine, but "les orgues" is
feminine. But it's not the most well-known example. The most well-known one
is certainly "amour", also masculine in the singular and feminine in the
plural. And "désir" has the same change of gender with number.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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