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[viral iron]

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[topaz crown]

do you have an example

[ripe geyser]

like to say "la voiture" for "the car" what determines whether a noun is feminine or masculine?

thats the only example i can come up with

cause ive had times where i mix up le/la and "misgender" whatever im talking about

[topaz crown]

ah, some word endings are more common for a gender than the other but there's a lot of exceptions

you pretty much have to just memorize it with the word when learning the meaning

unless your native language or another one you speak has grammatical gender

then they (usually) line up

[ripe geyser]

ohh i see, ill try to keep that in mind then 😭

merci !

[smoky thicket]

Keep in mind that 99.99% of nouns in French simply have a specific gender (there are some exceptions, but they’re very rare…)