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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Female in Russian, because the word machine/машина ends with A, and so any machine, from tattoo gun to steam engine is female gendered. I always thought French and German worked in somewhat similar manner?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The general rule of thumb in French is the word is feminine if it ends with "-le" like "la table", the table is feminine with it the article "la" to denote feminine. But this is not always the case. For example, house in French is "la maison" which doesn't end in "-le".

[–] StinkyRedMan 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a french I never heard about this, and I can think of way more words contradicting it than confirming it. I wouldn't use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am sorta learning French on Duolingo (and took 2 years in high school).

Articles like this one are really helpful, but also show the difficulty in learning the gender of nouns: How to easily guess the gender of French nouns with 80% accuracy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In Italian there is il tavolo, male, and la tavola, female. The latter can also be used to refer to a sheet of, usually, wood.

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