#Gender-inclusive nouns and ajectives

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Gender-inclusive nouns and ajectives

rapid cove
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What specifically are you having trouble with? There's more than one way to use inclusive language…

sick basin
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How do you form gender neutral nouns and adjectives? For example how would I say étudiant jeun in a gender-inclusive way?

rapid cove
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that dictionary will give you options, but none of them are considered "standard"

sick basin
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great site thank you! but how do you pronounce something like étudiant·e?

rapid cove
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you don't lol

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that's part of the problem with inclusive forms

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there's no way to pronounce them

sick basin
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oh shit

rapid cove
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in reality you'd say something like "l'étudiant ou l'étudiante"

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French just isn't set up grammatically to allow for this kind of stuff

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OR you use a form that is gender neutral

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élève, for instance can be either "un élève" or "une élève"

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So you can write in such a way that the implied gender isn't known

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But it's a pain in the ass

sick basin
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yeah these are probably the best options, but can be quite hard with little vocabulary

rapid cove
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I wouldn't get worked up about it as a beginner
Even natives are often unsure how they can word things to be neutral

sick basin
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yeah i guess so xD thank you though 🙏

scarlet fern