how to you find whether a french word is feminine or masculine if the word does not end in e?
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how to you find whether a french word is feminine or masculine if the word does not end in e?
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Explanation:
You more or less have to memorize the gender of each noun, although you can often (but not always) tell whether a word is masculine or feminine by looking at its ending. Masculine nouns often have these endings: aire. asme.
The short answer is that genders come from the Latin origins of French. French is derived from Latin, which has masculine, feminine and neuter. Neuter disappeared over time, some of the neuter nouns becoming feminine, others masculine. Latin originated from Proto-Indo-European, which also had the same three genders.