Remember The Gender of French Words - The Easy Way!
Gender of French Words….All French nouns have a gender – masculine or feminine and some an also have a masculine and feminine form.
The problem is, how on earth do you remember which French nouns are masculine and which are feminine?!
Some people say, just learn the gender of French words one by one and others learn vague rules.
Another brilliant way to remember the gender of French words is to learn the list of 40 word endings below. If you learn them all, you will be able to correctly identify the gender of 75% of all French nouns with an accuracy rate of around 95%.
These rules correctly predict the gender of more than a whopping 13398 nouns that you'd otherwise have to memorise.
Please ignore accents when using this gender of French words table.
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FEMININ ENDINGS |
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MASCULIN ENDINGS |
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Word Ending |
Accuracy Rate |
Main Exceptions
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Word Ending |
Accuracy Rate |
Main Exceptions
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| -ade |
95% |
jade, grade, stade, |
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-age |
99% |
cage, plage, image,
nage, page, rage, |
| -aison |
100% |
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-an |
95% |
médian, maman, |
| -ce |
89% |
espace, crustace,
exercice, bénéfice, office, artifice, précipice, dentifrice,
armistice,vice, service, silence, prince, commerce, pouce, |
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-c |
98% |
fac, |
| -ee |
89% |
lycée, périgée, trophée,
pedigree, musée, |
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-d |
97% |
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| -ie |
98% |
incendie, cryptographie,
périhélie, génie, foie, parapluie, |
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-eme |
90% |
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| -iere |
97% |
arrière, derrière,
cimetière, |
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-g |
99% |
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| -ine |
91% |
domaine, capitaine,
ciné, pipeline, moine, patrimoine, magazine, |
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-i |
91% |
merci, fourmi, foi, loi, |
| -ion |
97% |
ion, million, billion,
camion, dominion, lampion, scorpion, espion, démilitarisation,
antivivisection, bastion, attribution, avion, |
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-in |
96% |
main, fin, |
| -ite |
94% |
trilobite, anthracite,
plébiscite, gîte, graphite, satellite,
théodolite, comité, ermite, termite, granite, rite, mérite, site,
opposite, |
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-is |
93% |
brebis,
fois, souris, oasis, |
| -lle |
87% |
intervalle, vermicelle,
scelle, braille, mille, gorille, vaudeville, |
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-iste |
97% |
modiste, liste, piste, |
| -se |
85% |
vase, malaise,
suspense, sconse, opposé, exposé, gypse, inverse, colosse, carrosse,
pamplemousse, |
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-k |
98% |
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| -tte |
98% |
squelette, |
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-l |
89% |
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| -ude |
94% |
prélude, interlude,
coude, |
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-lon |
98% |
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| -ure |
90% |
dinosaure, centaure,
kilowattheure, sulfure/nitrure/... parjure, murmure, trichosure, |
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-m |
97% |
faim, |
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-non |
97% |
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-o |
82% |
météo, dactylo, dynamo,
steno, magnéto, moto, |
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-om |
96% |
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-r |
89% |
mer ,chair, minceur,
douceur, froideur, grandeur, profondeur, odeur, largeur, valeur, fleur,
couleur, soeur, peur, vapeur, erreur, horreur, cour, tour, |
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-ron |
100% |
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-sme |
100% |
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-t |
98% |
forêt, nuit, dent,
part, plupart, |
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-taire |
94% |
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-ton |
100% |
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-tre |
87% |
fenêtr, huître, vitre,
rencontre, montre, lettre, |
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-u |
97% |
eau, peau ,vertu, |
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-us |
95% |
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