Learning a language or anything in this world is a Journey from Unknown to Known, if you don’t know, learn and once you have learned now it’s known to you. So never mind, and start learning the French from this article and explore the new world and a new life as learning a language is living a new life.
Learning French or any other foreign language requires a big knowledge and clarity in grammar and translation from a learner as well as commitment of either do or dying.
In this post we’ll have a look towards “Gender” in French language.
In French all nouns are either masculine or feminine now it’s oblivious that nouns referring to objects, place, ideas and all are either masculine of feminine. There are no neuter nouns in French.
There are no fixed rules for noun’s genders , looking into dictionary is a good choice while facing problem.
Let’s have a look for some rules and it’s ending which makes them masculine or feminine based on ending :
Masculine :
- Nouns those are biologically masculine Ex: un homme (a man)
- nouns ending with -age, -eau, -eu, -ou, -ier. –illon, -in, -isme, -ment, -oir, -on are Masculine
un village, un bateau, un cheveu, le cou, un papier, un sapin, un champion etc.
- Name of the days, seasons, directions, numbers will take masculine in French language.
Un samedi, un nord, un automne etc.
- But be careful as there exists too many exceptions also in above rules.
Feminine :
- Nouns those are biologically Feminine Ex: une femme (a woman)
- Nouns ending with -e, -oi, -sion, -tion, -te, gion, -aison, -ance, -anse, -ence, -ense are feminine.
Une fille, une foi, une passion, une communication, une maison, etc.
- But be careful as there exists too many exceptions also in above rules.
Note : There exists too many rules exceptions while researching about gender (m & f) in French language, the more you’re immersed the more accuracy you’ll get in French language.