Other ways that an imbalance between masculine and feminine energies can show up include: Difficulty with emotional expression and connection with others. For the most part, nouns included in the following categories are masculine:\r\n\r\nThe articles (le and l) are in front of colors and languages above, because without them, the French words would be adjectives instead of nouns.\r\n

How to identify feminine French nouns

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Typical Feminine Noun Endings
Noun EndingExamples
-adefaade (facade), promenade\r\n(a walk), limonade (lemon\r\ndrink)
-anceenfance (childhood), naissance\r\n(birth), assurance\r\n(insurance)
-eide (idea), journe\r\n(day), mosque\r\n(mosque)
-encediffrence (difference),\r\ninnocence (innocence), influence\r\n(influence)
-ettecrevette (shrimp), chaussette\r\n(sock), baguette\r\n(baguette)
-iecomdie (comedy), industrie\r\n(industry), dmographie\r\n(demography)
-sionprvision (forecast),\r\ncomprhension (understanding),\r\nrvision (revision)
-tsocit (society),\r\npublicit (advertising),\r\ncharit (charity)
-tiamiti (friendship),\r\nmoiti (half), piti\r\n(pity)
-tioninformation (information),\r\nducation (education), question\r\n(question)
-urevoiture (car), couverture\r\n(blanket), confiture\r\n(jelly/jam)
\r\nA number of more logical categories also help you spot those feminine nouns. Articles are those little words in front of nouns. On the other hand, French has three: . We use them to refer to a portion or unspecified amount of foods, drinks, or other uncountable nouns. (amricain, amricaine), (mexicain, mexicaine), (cubain, cubaine), etc. Il faisait pas mal d'argent lorsqu'il travaillait. What am I trying to say? I found your site very informative. le la. How do you say the names of countries in French? Salut! This list has over 100 country names in French and English and their corresponding nationalities in French. So any rule that you heard, especially rules about grammatical gender, are rules that have been deduced from the way French people were already using gender. Is money in French masculine or feminine? For a feminine noun une means a and la. France has 13 distinct overseas territories. I get it. Were full of insecurities and dont want to make any mistakes. For the most part, nouns included in the following categories are feminine:\r\n