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Gender - Genre - French Grammar + Pronunciation Glossary

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Definition: Gender indicates whether parts of speech are masculine (masculin) or feminine (féminin). All French nouns have a gender, and all adjectives and articles that modify them must agree with this gender, as must personal pronouns that replace them.

Related lessons: Gender patterns - Nouns with two genders

Related terms: noun - article - pronoun - adjective - agreement

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