F Examples: Le cheval – la jument (horse – mare) Le mouton – la brebis (mutton – ewe) La vache – le taureau ( cow – bull) Le cochon – la truie (Pig – sow) L’homme – la femme (man – woman) 4.

"Personne" is a feminine noun in French, hence it is always "la personne," whether the person intended is masculine or feminine. It was the twentieth century, the fashion was already to the masculine gender.In Africa, many countries are masculine for other reasons.

The Qin Empire was said to have been pronounced “Tsin”, then it became ‘’Chine’’. Here is a historical explanation that will shed light on this curiosity.How to memorize the countries’ gender?Thank you! Her pieces combine the masculine and feminine in sometimes provocative, always original creations. In the same vein, ‘sun’ is masculine in French, neuter in Russian, and feminine in German, whereas ‘moon’ is feminine in French and Russian, but masculine in German. The articles agree with the nouns they refer too, so they also have a gender. Perhaps the fact that the word ended with an ”e” contributed to feminization because culturally the ”e” is feminine.Here is a very nice map to visualize genders (click to enlarge) :African countries being often relatively young (20th century) they are, by consequence, masculine. Except for animals and humans, most of the time, gender is arbitrary.
All the translators who met Israel in the texts copied the form without an article. : Key points: An ongoing dialogue between masculine and feminine dress codes.

I enjoyed reading this article.Masculine names are less common. le Royaume Uni, is masculine because the noun royaume (kingdom) is masculine in French. As a result, the Committee of French Foreign Affairs validated it as it stood.Same for Nigeria (which was feminine and was masculinized in the 1970s) Botswana, Angola, Liberia or Canada.Overall, you can remember that European countries are predominantly female and African countries are predominantly male.This is a headache for non-French speakers: why are some countries male and others female? Is CANADA masculine or feminine in French? Two genders: masculine and feminine. For example, China derives its name from the Qin Dynasty. Only nouns and their related adjectives have a gender. “Gender” is still the term used for this kind of classification, though. On March 21, 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi published a decree requiring foreign countries to designate the country henceforth. Sometimes they are named after anthroponyms (names of people).
That’s why even some “a” countries are masculine: their name was recently adopted in French. The feminine of some masculine noun is obtained by adding an –el’      in front of a vowelLe scorpion – scorpionne (scorpio – male and female)Un danseur – une danseuse (a dancer - male and female)F Note: when the noun ends with –e  like:Neuf – neuve (new - male and female)

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