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gender of french nouns

is it ever possible to memorise the gender of french nouns?? when i learn a new noun, i also memorise the gender. but after 2 days, i forget the gender. this is very worrying since i wont be able to memorise the gender of all nouns in french 2 days before the exam. so does anyone know any useful methods for memorising the gender of nouns??

Reply 1

xmarilynx

Most nouns are masculine, so just make a special effort to remember those that are feminine and then by process of elimination you know the rest will be masculine.

I have the same problem in German but it's much worse with three genders :eek:

Reply 2

malteser87

Original post by naseem hossen

You're not always going to remember the gender, but here's a few tips to help you out! :smile:

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/le_or_la_in_french.shtml

Hope that helps :biggrin:

Reply 3

Anna Schoon

From my quick research on the internet, it would appear that about 55% of French nouns are masculine, so 45% are feminine. Memorising all the feminine words you know would still be a mammoth job, I think!

Try looking at this website: http://membres.multimania.fr/clo7/grammaire/nomsMF.htm which gives some sensible rules and common exceptions.

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