
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Noun gender fluency = French fluency. Speaking and writing French is so much easier when you know how to use words like au, à la, aux, du, de la, des, un, une, le, la, celui, celle, lequel, laquelle and other parts of gendered grammar.
But knowing when to use these words comes down to knowing the masculine or feminine genders of French nouns. After all, a noun's masculine or feminine gender is only important to help you choose the correct grammar to use in your sentences. Unfortunately French noun genders has been one of the hardest challenges for English-speaking French learners to grasp for ages.
In this course you'll find a better way to tell if a word is masculine or feminine automatically. You will NOT have to memorize random words and their le or la genders ever again!
With your new understanding of why French nouns are masculine or feminine, you'll be able to learn and flow through all of the gendered parts of French grammar vite vite vite!
In your Étudiez Workbook we've included tons of exercises that get you to produce your own French sentences so that you implement what you learn and grow as a French bilingual.
By the end of this course you can expect to see massive expansion of your French vocabulary and easier fluent French expression.