The idea behind Genders: A simple tutorial package designed to help learners of French to internalise knowledge of noun gender distinctions

Brian Farrington

doi:10.4995/eurocall.2006.16369

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Brian Farrington University of Aberdeen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2006.16369

Abstract

Noun gender is one of the most, if not the most, exasperating features of French for a learner. Apart from a relatively small number of words whose gender is set semantically (père, mère, fils etc.) there seems to be no reason why a table, freedom or France itself should be feminine, while a wall, a beginning or Japan should be masculine.

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