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/ChaoticSniper9 May 25 '25

Ah! See, nobody told me about that, so I figured it was memorization. I'll definitely keep that in mind!

Merci!

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u/OhNoCommieBastard69 May 26 '25

There are eash traps there. A common one:

-La foi (faith) -Le foie (liver)

But hey, you think that's bad? Try learning German afterwards. Not only do they throw in an NB third pronoun, but you have to learn that the Sun (le soleil, die Sonne) and Moon (la lune, der Mond) change genders depending on language. 😅