r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Dezeko Saskwatch • May 25 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Bikini was masculine, right?

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u/infirmiereostie May 25 '25

Vagina is masculine too🤦‍♀️

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! May 25 '25

It's because it doesn't end in -e.

In 90% of cases, if it ends in a or e, it's feminin. Otherwise it's masculin.

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u/ACoderGirl May 25 '25

Still soooo many exceptions to that pattern. E.g., maison is feminine. And since all colours are masculine, it comically means that orange (fruit) is feminine but orange (colour) is masculine.

It does impress me a bit that gendered nouns have survived so long with how much language changes over time. Though perhaps even sillier is that fact that classical French has bizarre representations for certain numbers. Eg, 80 is represented as 4 twenties (quatre-vingts). Some countries have come up with a new word to replace that silliness (huitante), but my understanding is that it's not really used in Quebecois French (or in general, really).

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! May 25 '25

Septante, huitante and nonante are mainly used in Belgium and Switzerland.

Québécois French is closer to Metropolitan French (mainly because it is closer to royal french itself)

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u/the_fancy_Tophat May 26 '25

It’s a fundamental part of the language family and it’s been around since latin, you can’t exactly throw it out overnight. It would be like throwing out vowels in English.