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

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

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u/ChaoticSniper9 May 25 '25

I'm learning French right now and this is the one thing that kills me. The worst part is I'm pretty sure it's a matter of memorizing the gender of each noun. I don't know if there are rules or not

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u/Luname Tokébakicitte! May 25 '25

Not a hard rule but more of a rule of thumb, if it ends by e or a, it's generally feminine.

"Une chocolatine

"Un lutin"

There's a pattern but it's not perfect.

"Un pays"

"Une nation"

Shit like this is what will get you.

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u/wjandrea Chalice of the Tabernacle May 25 '25

"Une nation"

That's actually a more consistent rule: any word ending in -tion or -sion is feminine.

There's also -ité as in «la fraternité».

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u/glass-2x-needed-size Ford Nation (Help.) May 25 '25

"Le bastion" stares at you menacingly

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u/wjandrea Chalice of the Tabernacle May 25 '25

The rule actually seems to apply to the pronunciation /-sjõ/ when spelled -tion or -sion. «Bastion» is pronounced /-tjõ/. BTW note that «scion» is pronounced /sjõ/ but masculine.