Gender of Living Beings

CONTENT
  1. Grammatical Gender of Nouns
  2. Irregularities

For people and animals, the grammatical gender of a noun usually corresponds to the biological gender of the object it defines.

Native

Translation

Une mère.

A mom.

Grammatical Gender of Nouns

Rule 1: The basic form of the noun is always masculine. To obtain the feminine form of the noun, we add an -e.

Native

Translation

un ami (m) - une amie (f)

a friend

Irregularities

Rule 2: A spelling change is often necessary when changing the form of the noun.

Native

Translation

un boulanger (m) - une boulangère (f)

a baker

un serveur (f) - une serveuse (m)

a waiter/waitress

un directeur (m) - une directrice (f)

a director

un tigre (m) - une tigresse (f)

a tiger

Quiz

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Create the feminine form of the word chat (cat)

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