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[wintry hatch]

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[frail yarrow]

so une amie is just a friend(female) and i think you wanted to say: ma petite amie it means my girlfriend

[balmy steppe]

"ma amie" on its own doesn't exist, btw
"mon amie" would be "my (female) friend"

[frosty needle]

Oh that's weird

That's very weird

[balmy steppe]

"ma" always becomes "mon" before a vowel otherwise it sounds kinda ugly

[frail yarrow]

the elder people would say: bonne amie for girlfriend but now we don't really use this

[balmy steppe]

it's kinda like a/an in english

[frosty needle]

That's fair

Yeah I suppose it doesn't click until you have to say it out loud

[balmy steppe]

oui mais pas avant une voyelle

c'est toujours mon

on dit pas "ma amie"

[terse stratus]

verrrry old poeple (probably all dead) could say "m'amie", but tbh that only exists in text

[frosty needle]

Donc c'est toujours "mon" avant une voyelle comme "a/an" pour les mots qui commencent par une voyelle ?

What about words that are spelled with a vowel, but are sounded with a "y" sound (like "Euro")?

Is that still "mon"?

[terse stratus]

Words that start with a glide/semi-vowel would not start with mon

[balmy steppe]

^

[terse stratus]

unless they're already masculine, of course

[frosty needle]

So it's rooted in pronunciation whether you use "Ma" or "Mon" for feminine nouns, rather than spelling?

[terse stratus]

But tbh I have a hard time thinking of any vowel-letter-starting words that start with a glide in French

[terse stratus]

Yes, exactly like a/an

[frosty needle]

Got it

[balmy steppe]

"h" is the only kind of weird case

[terse stratus]

indeed

and onze

[frosty needle]

The h isn't voiced at the start of words, is it

[balmy steppe]

there are words that start with an "h" that block being treated as a starting vowel

called h aspiré

[terse stratus]

called an 'h aspiré', but it's never pronounced

[balmy steppe]

but h is never pronounced yeah

[terse stratus]

heh

[frosty needle]

Like "hôtel" is sounded as "ôtel" for example?

[balmy steppe]

yea

that's an h muet

so l'hôtel

usually h aspiré are because they were historically pronounced (often loan words)