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Learn French Grammar - Gender of Nouns: ships and restaurants

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Nouns in French are either masculine or feminine. Unfortunately, there are no simple rules for predicting the gender of a noun. However, it is not necessary to learn all genders by heart as there are certain rules that can be used to predict the genre with varying degrees of accuracy. Be careful not to forget that there are always exceptions to these models.


After mastering this lesson, these related pages might interest you: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Typical use of demonstrative determiners & Function of adverbs.

Names of ships[edit | edit source]

The names of ships are usually masculine because the word ship is masculine, e.g. "Le Normandie". However, small ships can be feminine eg. "La Marie-Joseph" because the corvette (la corvette) and the frigate (la fregate) are feminine.

Names of Restaurants[edit | edit source]

Restaurant names also tend to be masculine, as the restaurant itself is masculine. A restaurant named after a region renowned for its excellent products, such as "La Normandie" (Normandy), will be called "Le Normandie".

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Nouns


Determiners


Personal and impersonal pronouns


Adjectives


Adverbs


Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers


Verb forms


Verb constructions


Verb and participle agreement


Tense


The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives


The infinitive


Prepositions


Question formation


Relative clauses


Negation


Conjunctions and other linking constructions

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