The Gendered Parts of French Speech.

Master masculine French nouns that end with consonants by learning core rules and exceptions in Module 1.1, enabling automatic recognition and fluent, accurate sentence construction.

In module 1.2, learn that French nouns ending in vowels are mostly masculine, with exceptions: borrowings from Spanish or Italian are feminine, and shortened forms like photo remain feminine.

Explore the rules and exceptions for masculine French nouns ending in e, debunking the myth that all endings in e are feminine, with examples and homographic homonyms.

Explore how masculine French nouns include elements and compounds, days of the week, months, seasons, numbers and letters, colors as nouns, languages, and shapes, with key exceptions noted.

Identify feminine French nouns that don’t end in e, learn the rules and exceptions, and expand your vocabulary with common endings such as ion, cion, xion, sion, ison, and gion.

Explore typical feminine endings in French nouns, including a, c, nc, and double e endings, plus exceptions. Learn rules and mnemonics to identify feminine gender and contrast with masculine endings.

Learn how feminine French nouns end with vowel-consonant e patterns and master the exceptions, expanding vocabulary through examples, exercises, and quizzes.

Identify feminine noun categories in French, including sciences, planets, car brand names, and always-feminine nouns like le person and le victim, with relevant grammar rules.

Learn feminine agreement in French, where adjectives and other words must agree with feminine nouns. Use -e to form feminine endings, or rely on endings that already end in -e.

Master the rules for forming feminine adjectives and ensuring gender and number agreement with feminine nouns in French, including endings for beau, nouveau, derived from verbs, and color adjectives.

Explore how French compound nouns acquire gender, focusing on verb-derived forms and prefixes and suffixes. Practice expanding vocabulary with the HDI workbook and writing sentences to reinforce meaning.

Discover how adverb-derived compound nouns inherit the gender of their noun part. See masculine and feminine forms in examples and note exceptions for compounds beginning with desu or deci.

This module teaches that compound nouns derive their gender from the first noun, illustrated by examples like le bonheur, le mal, le parti, le mille-pattes, and la bande dessinée.

Learn that noun phrases and acronyms take their gender from the first noun, with examples like la maladie a coronavirus, la pomme de terre, and la covid.

Learn how prefixes like para, pas, and anti affect noun gender in French, with examples such as le parapluie, le parachute, le paravent, and how masculine prefixes override feminine endings.

Explore masculine suffixes and rules for French nouns, including compound nouns and noun phrases, with examples like le kilogram and le telegram.

Explore how gender shapes French grammar by using definite, indefinite, and partitive articles, and apply noun gender rules to articles, adjectives, and pronouns.

Learn how the gendered French prepositions à and de contract with articles to form au, du, de la, des, and l apostrophe, applying rules for masculine, feminine, and plural nouns.

Explore non descriptive adjectives in French, focusing on demonstrative and possessive forms, their before-noun placement, gender and number agreement, and use of liaison with vowel-starting nouns.

Explore how French descriptive adjectives describe attributes and agree with nouns in gender and number, and are usually placed after the noun, with key exceptions before the noun.

Explore gendered French pronouns, including subject, demonstrative, possessive, direct object, and relative pronouns, and learn how they agree in gender and quantity with the nouns they replace.

Explore the gendered demonstrative pronouns and adjectives in French, learn how they agree with nouns and how ci and là specify proximity, replacing nouns when needed.

Explore how possessive pronouns express ownership in French, replace the noun, and agree with the noun’s gender and number, including masculine, feminine, and plural forms and the feminization rules.

Learn how direct object pronouns, including gendered le and la, and indirect pronouns like lui, shape French sentences, especially for verbs that require the preposition à and subject pronoun placement.

Explore the gendered French relative pronouns and how form depends on gender and number, with masculine, feminine, singular, and plural forms.

Explore gender and number agreements in French passé composé, covering when past participles agree with subjects with être or avoir, including reflexive verbs and the Dr. Mrs. Van der Tramp verbs.

Explore how gendered agreements affect the avoir past participle when a direct object precedes the past participle, and how feminine and plural forms come into play.

Identify and master the gendered parts of French speech by recognizing masculine and feminine endings and common suffix patterns, with practice through journaling in French.