The Rules for the Gender of French Nouns: Revised Fourth EditionSaul Rosenthal, 2009 - Всего страниц: 188 Do you wonder why an arm is masculine while a leg is feminine? Why your sofa is masculine but your chair is feminine? And why should a person or victim always be feminine, even if the person or victim you're talking about happens to be a man? And isn't it odd that masculinit is feminine? The illogic of French gender can be very frustrating. But after reading this book, if you see words like croisement, pays, vin, or chocolat, you will instantly know they are masculine, and you will also immediately recognize that words like ville, facture, maladie, and essence are feminine. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Masculine Noun Endings | 7 |
T | 9 |
S | 16 |
I and Y | 21 |
U | 24 |
N | 32 |
R | 37 |
Rule17 Doubled Consonants followed by E | 75 |
Rule18 ÉE | 81 |
Rule21 IE | 89 |
Rule24 MBEandMPE | 96 |
Rule27 ACONSONANTE | 104 |
Rule29 RCONSONANTE | 114 |
Rule32 GNE | 122 |
Comment on Noun Endings that dont follow any rule | 131 |
Other Consonants | 42 |
O | 46 |
A | 48 |
Masculine Nouns that End in E | 50 |
É | 58 |
Compound Nouns | 60 |
Comment on Feminine Noun Endings | 69 |
Rule35 C | 139 |
U | 145 |
Review of Mixed Endings | 149 |
Appendix List of Rules | 163 |
Boiling it all down | 176 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
A-CONSONANT-E accueil actrice AGE and ÈGE AINE ASME bourgogne chèvre classic feminine endings common endings compound nouns consonants double consonants followed encountered ending in AIRE ending in AISON ending in EUR ending in EUSE ending in GUE ending in IÉ ending in OIX ending in RRE équateur ÈRE EUSE ÈVE examples fairly common feminine depending feminine endings feminine exceptions Feminine nouns ending feminine rules feminine words follow no rule French nouns GARDE gender group ending group of nouns I-CONSONANT-E endings IENNE IRE and AIRE ISME ISON and ISSON look Mary Cassatt Masculine compound nouns masculine endings Masculine nouns ending masculine or feminine masculine word mixed and follow Mixed Endings MME and RRE OIRE person Peugeot PION predominantly feminine professeur rhume RRE are mixed Rule Fourteen Rule Nineteen Rule Seventeen Rule Thirteen Rule Twenty-Nine salure small groups spade suit subgroups talking U-CONSONANT-E vowel We’ll words ending