So french is just like portuguese, but in portuguese you normally know if something is male or female by the ending of the words (with a feel exceptions), for example pizza is female because ends with "a"

[–] Interesting_Test_814@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the same in french, the gender of words is generally determined by their ending. (Which is not pronounced.)

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But French is so hard to find rules about that compared to say Spanish.

Spanish is much simpler: ends in 'a' it's mostly female (except stupid poema, and a few others), ends in 'o' it's male (except foto, and a few others). If there's a rule to French I don't know it, and none of my French teachers knew it. If you're French, you just grow up learning which words are male and which are female, so French speakers just naturally know and can't explain it.

[–] Interesting_Test_814@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, there are quite a lot of exceptions but "-e is female, otherwise is male" works most of the time. Then if you want to be more precise you can remember some generic exceptions like -age, -isme are male and -tion, -té is female. You'll still have some exceptions like une souris, une vis, une dent, un câble, un graphe, un cône, une image (exception to the exception) but it probably works in about 80-90% of cases.

(Also "icône" is actually female in French)

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Good to know, french is on my list of languages that i wanna learn someday