I am learning french and need to know when a word is masculine or feminine so i can use un or une.
2006-07-29 02:35:15 · 5 answers · asked by Learning French 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
French gender is a constant headache for many students of French. There's just no simple logical way to knowing the gender of every noun other than just learning the gender with each word.
There are, however, some patterns in suffixes and word endings - certain endings tend to indicate masculine nouns, while other endings favor feminine nouns.
e.g. words ending with 'age' tend to be masculine, while those ending in 'ade' will usually be feminine. With all things, there are expecptions to every rule.
2006-07-29 02:46:37 · answer #1 · answered by Nene 3 · 29⤊ 6⤋
It should say in the dictionary when you look it up. If it's la - it's feminine, if it's le - it's masculine. If it has an extra e on the end it's feminine (like la brulée) However there's no rule of thumb to tell if something is masculine or feminine, you just have to learn it I'm afraid!
2006-07-29 02:40:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you just have to know, I mean if you were French you would have been taught since you were small; as you learn new French words you will learn their gender too. In the meantime buy a French dictionary and look them up!
2006-07-29 02:39:46 · answer #3 · answered by cooperslassie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
remember Le and UN refer to masculine only and la and une refer to feminine. I took two years of french. common bien est-ce tu jour au basket. A heure est-ce tu vais a la ecole. I could add the accent but My keyboard don't have it.
2006-07-29 02:52:55 · answer #4 · answered by problemsolver86 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(le) is masculine and (la) is feminine
2006-07-29 02:38:43 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋