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[rustic anvil]

Please be patient

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[reef wave]

Context and specific phrases is how you avoid confusion

[heady canyon]

Yeah but stil

If i say Allez droit what does it mean

go straight or right

[reef wave]

Usually they say « tout droit » to mean straight ahead

[heady canyon]

Ohh

[reef wave]

Allez tout droit = Go straight
Allez à droite* = Go right

[heady canyon]

oo okay i got it

[reef wave]

I don’t think « allez droit » is said at all but I could be wrong, if it is then it’s far from common 🤷🏻‍♀️

[heady canyon]

oh makes sense

[lime gull]

for a direction, right would use "droite"

"Droit au but" is the moto of OM (famous footbal team) and mean "straight to the goal"

[reef wave]

how do you do bold text? I wanted to highlight the last e too but I couldn’t so I used an asterisk* 😅

[lime gull]

use "*" for ithaliqye and "**" for bold at the begining and end of your text

like **thispart is bold**

[heady canyon]

oh wait, is that always or depending on gender

Yeah type your message like this **make text bold**

[lime gull]

a direction is feminin: "la direction" => allez à droite
but if it's a side "le côté" => le côtê droit

[reef wave]

thank you

[heady canyon]

oh

[echo ice]

Côté*

[heady canyon]

why do french words have genders anyway

like why is a car female

[reef wave]

side note, tout droit is not feminine because the droit here is an adverb and not an adjective

Both the tout and the droit are adverbs and adverbs in French are invariable

[lime gull]

Gender is common in many romance languages, and they are almost always the same for French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese...

[heady canyon]

romance language, never heard of that before XD

[outer blade]

Basically any language that descends from Latin

By the way, most of Europe has gender except English, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian

A fifth of all the languages in the world have some sort of gender system