French Words

Thanks, tomorrow will be the official french day cheers

Thank you for the advice Smile

Gender sometimes is getting on my nerves. My french teacher often tells me that when the word (as it's pronounced) ends in a vowel it's more likely to be feminine. And if it's pronounced with a final consonant - it's masculine. Also, everything that ends in -sion, -tion is feminine. But actually this rule never worked for me Very Happy

Right now I'm desperately trying to memorize the gender of body parts.

The advise Gis has given you is very good. I usually memorize gender translating from Russian into French (my 'manuel' provides lots of exercises on the Russian-French translation).

Good luck tomorrow!

Thanks, Rina! Although my test is on wednesday, tomorrow I'll be learning- to pass it very good and to get on to the next level Razz

Ekaterina wrote:

Gender sometimes is getting on my nerves. My french teacher often tells me that when the word (as it's pronounced) ends in a vowel it's more likely to be feminine. And if it's pronounced with a final consonant - it's masculine. Also, everything that ends in -sion, -tion is feminine. But actually this rule never worked for me Very Happy

Right now I'm desperately trying to memorize the gender of body parts.

The advise Gis has given you is very good. I usually memorize gender translating from Russian into French (my 'manuel' provides lots of exercises on the Russian-French translation).

Good luck tomorrow!

A little help found on the web, I hope you can use it, and courage ! Everntually you will get a sort of instinct for these things (always better sure than mistaken though) :

Words ending in
age, ier, in, isme, ment, and oir are
almost always masculine. Some exceptions: cage, image,
plage, fin, main.

Words ending in ade, ance, ée, ence,
esse, sion, té, tion, and ure are
almost always feminine.

Some exceptions: grade, stade,
centigrade, coryphée, lycée, silence,
décolleté, été, doigté,
feuilleté, côté, sauté,
pâté, comté, himation, ligure,
bromure, mercure, tellure (all masculine).

Also if you can read French, you will find this helpful

"the trick with genders"

http://www.fourmilab.ch/francais/gender.html

Merci, Rach!!! :kissvn8.gif: cheers

AAA, tomorrow's the day bounce

, keep your fingers crossed Neutral

Krista, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you;) I'm going to take my french exam in about a month, and I'm really frightened. I know how you must feel.

Rach, thank you for the link! hugs

Gender is always a problem, since in Russian we have 3 genders (masculine, feminine and medium), and somehow in the majority of cases they don't coincide with French.

I've just read about your exam Krista. I hope it was good hugs

Bonsoir, mes amies youpi

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