There are two genders in French: masculine and feminine.
All nouns in French are either masculine or feminine.
Although there are no rules by which the gender of all nouns can be determined, the gender of many nouns can be determined by their meaning or their ending. The gender of other nouns must be learned individually. The best way to memorize the gender of words is to memorize the article when learning a new word.
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Masculine Nouns
Feminine Nouns
Nouns of Two
Genders
Gender of Compound
Nouns
Knowing the gender of every noun is important not only for the noun itself, but for the spelling and pronunciation of the words it influences in a sentence: adjectives, articles, verbs, and pronouns. They agree in gender and in number with the noun.
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Feminine and Masculine
Forms of Adjectives
Articles
Indefinite
Article
Definite Article
Participles
Verbs
Pronouns
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