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Hello French learners 😀

In French, there are words that sound the same but have different meanings, different spellings, and different genres:

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Consider broadening your understanding by checking out these related lessons: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Agreement of past participles with direct objects placed before in relative clauses & Use of the definite article with superlatives.

Nouns which have the same spoken form but two different written forms[edit | edit source]

Masculine Feminine
French English French English French English French English
un cal a callus une cale a wedge
un faîte a summit une fête a party
le foie the liver la foi the faith
le maire the mayor la mer the sea une mère a mother
un pet a fart la paie the pay la paix peace
le poids weight un pois a pea la poix pitch
un rai a ray of light une raie a parting (in hair) or a skate (fish)
le sel salt une selle a saddle
le sol earth une sole a sole (fish)
un tic a tic (nervous) une tique a tick (insect)
le vice vice (crime) une vis a screw

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Table of Contents

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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