@Dennis Rue Okay, I do find English significantly easier than French, but some exceptions really throw me off... I mean, why should I use forget-forgot-forgotten in written texts, but get-got-got ("gotten is not correct", at least according to my english teacher). Completely useless.
@@EPSON-HP gotten is more of a slang. it's correct, but not widely accepted and more informal. Not sure if you're still here, haha. In informal speech, like "I've gotten you a new car!" it's not as bad and is more human-sounding. However, in a presentation, it's better to not use got. For example, "I got you a new car!" Slang is stupid in English, but at least it's not as hard as mandarin with their pronunciations and several meanings.
@@santozyoel Yee, I do understand that gotten is more colloquial and that got is that correct form, but it seems like a double irregularity to me. Why should it be got, when it is forgotten? Is it so hard to change forgotten or got? Why are English standards so messed up? I mean, I don't have much to complain since I am at the top of my class, but this critical thinking becomes my most important weapon in class. It's how I still benefit from the lessons.
Man, deciding the gender of French words is always a troublesome thing to learn. No matter how many tricks or formulas you learnt there will always be some exceptions making you imperfect
With due respect, the example was a poor a choice imo. There are way too many masculine words ending with to assume a word ending with is more likely to be feminine. In actuality a great deal of French words end with a suffix indicating gender fairly reliably most of the time. Here's a list of suffixes that may enable you to tell a word's gender: MASCULINE -age (avantage) -ail (corail) -al (canal) -eau (jumeau) -er (mensonger) -et (poignet) -eur (menteur) -ier (cuisinier) -if (explosif) -isme (capitalisme) -ment (changement) -oir (tiroir) -on (mignon) -ot (idiot) FEMININE -ade (parade) -aille (bataille) -ée (poignée) -elle (jumelle) -ère (mensongère) -esse (souplesse) -ette (vedette) -euse (menteuse) -ie (envie) -ité (gravité) -ive (explosive) -oire (passoire) -onne (mignonne) -ote (idiote) -ssion/tion (passion, attention) Note the above list isn't exhaustive. Exceptions are frequent in French so don't be surprised when you come across one. Hope this helps.
I've learned arabic, it has similarities with French in terms of each noun has a gender and everything else around it would have to 'agree' with it accordingly. But at least in Arabic, 99,9 % of the time you can tell if a noun is masculine/feminine by just looking at the ending of the word. And it makes it a lot more easier to understand.
French spelling confuses me too, especially when I started learning French, but as I've progressed in the language, I've begun to find it more regular then English, although of course, with tons of exceptions.
@@etienneemond201 I got a test tomorrow even though my french teacher hasn't been in for a long time. All we have been doing is memorising from books and not actually learning anything and it sucks
+João Augusto I think for us that speak a latin language is a little bit more easy to just guess, for example, think the gender on portuguese before saying it in french, I really think the chance for you to guess it right is about 90%.
Thanks you help a lot soooo much you don’t know how much this means to me. Because i ALWAYS use duolingo but duolingo doesn’t teach you how to spot masculine and feminine nouns
So what is the trick to understand if such words like "fromage" how do we understand them whether they are masculine or feminine ? Pls try to reply to this Question
Okay so the thing is the only way to tell "as a native french" speaker is to practice with french exercise about feminine and masculine because the thing is that if we wanna know if its masculine or feminine in french we just need to read the sentence to see if it make sence but yall wont know if it does sooo yea sorry to tell ya but your best option is to find some exercise paper or maybe ask a french friend to teach you
Tytytytyty… I’ve got French final tomorrow, but I’ve been improving my cognitive memory. Basically i remember your whole video. Short enough to remember.
Omg nice series! Hope you guys update more soon. I'm still taking my french lesson from the basic so it's really helpful if you can do more about the grammar like this! Thanks so much! Merci bc!
my way to distinguish its gender, some rules i have found and it may help... 1)---sion,tion, ---ty(society, anxiety) --------------------F 2)---ending with e-------------F(to be considered as a lot of exceptions though) 3)the word is exactly the same or similar to eng-------------M 4)slang words(mec, truc)(must be also considered the second rule)------------M second and third rule is on order, for example if it is with e and it is sim or the same to eng, it would be F.... for example, the table would be feminine
So if the noun is masculine and doesn't end in 'e', do you add an 'e' to the end of a masculine noun if the masculine noun is spoken by a female? And do you add another 'e' onto a masculine noun that ends in an 'e' if it is spoken by a female?
Good afternoon, I wanted to know whether there's a specific rule for exceptional nouns in French. If there's a rule, kindly vlog a video about the topic. Thank You
I have long had a question？What is the process of deciding a noun‘s gender in French? Or who decides it? Of course the existing nouns already have their gender. What if there comes a new word? New technology introduces a lot of new words, how to /what is the process to decide a new word's gender? Could you give examples? Merci beaucoup!
Thanks for this excellent summary and useful initial guessing framework. I was relieved that it was not another " there are so many exceptions, there is no pattern, so just memorise" type of advice, which I find to be totally impractical assuming that there are thousands of nouns.
Excellent tips. Thank you. i especially appreciated learning the typical suffixes that would trigger a cross to the other gender like 'age" in fromage.
Thank you so much teacher!! Merci Beaucoup, Madame! French is not much difficult for me to learn as I can speak/write/type Latin and Portuguese..! Love From India🌺💞🇮🇳
So let me get this straight. If a word ends in a, e, i, o, u and sometimes h, its a feminine noun? And if it ends in a consonant letter, it is masuline?
nouns ending with -age, -ment, -oir, -eau are masculine and the nouns ending with -tion, -sion, -te, -euse are feminine. Are there any exceptions for this rule?
This is helpful, but what happens when a noun can be written in masculine and feminine, like the word 'abstract', spelt 'abstrait' (m) or 'abstraite' (f) in French. How do you know which version to use?
Go to google translate, get the word you wanna know the gender of, I will use cafétéria, now turn it so it translates from english to french, I typed (The cafeteria) and it translated as la cafétéria, and then look it translated and added la which means that it's feminine, if it gives le then it's masculine, I think it will automatically pick the right thing for you if it's plural it will make it les, all you have to do then is find the non plural form of the word. (If it gives you the wrong match to it and you are sure that it messed up then blame google translate not me) The only catch to this is that you have to know the word in english, which you can find out is easily by making the translate option turn from french to english, type in your french word and get the english translation then go on with the translation.
It looks really hard for a foreign speaker...every time you use a noun, you go on figuring out whether it's feminine or masculine, and you cannot do it if you don't know the spelling or even the correct pronunciation. Why the inventors of these language needed to put genders on non-living things? Haha Oh I'm afraid it will take me a century before I will be good at this.
Don't worry about "feminine " or "masculine". The most important, especially if it is a second language, is to be understood. You will learn the genders by practicing. Now explain me these 2 pronunciations " spoon" and " flood», so as you can understand, French is not more complicated than English. Most of the English words are from French words (1/3 to 2/3 according to some sources... It can help when you do not know the french word for... "achever" = " to achieve" Now good luck !
Please suggest me a video about french sentence pattern( Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative and other sentence pattern).How writte a sentence in french and their basic?I see many french sentences.Smething I don't understand their pattern like j'amie means I love or I like. When means like? when love?I don't know.When use (') this sign I don't know.
Hello Madame, sorry to ask this question. I may be disturbing but please help me because I'm a beginner from Ghana. What is the simple way to help me study french alone to attain perfection as a beginner?
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How can I know the meaning of a word written in French when I don't have an idea
that has no solution my guy
French grammar in a nutshell: exceptions within exceptions within exceptions
Tbh, you slso have it in English and German.
@Dennis Rue Okay, I do find English significantly easier than French, but some exceptions really throw me off...
I mean, why should I use forget-forgot-forgotten in written texts, but get-got-got ("gotten is not correct", at least according to my english teacher). Completely useless.
Dude for real though
@@EPSON-HP gotten is more of a slang. it's correct, but not widely accepted and more informal. Not sure if you're still here, haha. In informal speech, like "I've gotten you a new car!" it's not as bad and is more human-sounding. However, in a presentation, it's better to not use got. For example, "I got you a new car!" Slang is stupid in English, but at least it's not as hard as mandarin with their pronunciations and several meanings.
@@santozyoel Yee, I do understand that gotten is more colloquial and that got is that correct form, but it seems like a double irregularity to me. Why should it be got, when it is forgotten? Is it so hard to change forgotten or got? Why are English standards so messed up? I mean, I don't have much to complain since I am at the top of my class, but this critical thinking becomes my most important weapon in class. It's how I still benefit from the lessons.
Man, deciding the gender of French words is always a troublesome thing to learn. No matter how many tricks or formulas you learnt there will always be some exceptions making you imperfect
you correct
@@vanshikasingh5522 correct you
Just be as sexist as possible;Cuisine: feminine since French is sexist and believes women belong in the kitchen.
@@IAmPantsu if you see any man from Arabs ask him any hard questions about French and Arabic French because they also have female and male nouns
@@willkillyourmom I am actually an Arab , but tbh I think that french is harder when it is related to masculine and feminine nouns
Wow with 4:16 minutes of this I learned it a lot easier than in class which is like 45 minutes
Lmao same
Yah that’s why we don’t need any fucking French teachers they don’t know how to teach
So true
In my class at school, most people don't listen so I can't listen therefore I don't try to listen.
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This is bringing back memories of trying to learn when to use “a” or “an” back in 4th grade
A or an is simple it follows a straightforward rule. French has the entire gender noun thing which english has no equal.
Uhm why was I never thought that...
French is way harder, and also if you didn't have "a" or "an" figured out by 2nd grade then you have a learning disability.
With due respect, the example was a poor a choice imo. There are way too many masculine words ending with to assume a word ending with is more likely to be feminine. In actuality a great deal of French words end with a suffix indicating gender fairly reliably most of the time. Here's a list of suffixes that may enable you to tell a word's gender:
MASCULINE
-age (avantage)
-ail (corail)
-al (canal)
-eau (jumeau)
-er (mensonger)
-et (poignet)
-eur (menteur)
-ier (cuisinier)
-if (explosif)
-isme (capitalisme)
-ment (changement)
-oir (tiroir)
-on (mignon)
-ot (idiot)
FEMININE
-ade (parade)
-aille (bataille)
-ée (poignée)
-elle (jumelle)
-ère (mensongère)
-esse (souplesse)
-ette (vedette)
-euse (menteuse)
-ie (envie)
-ité (gravité)
-ive (explosive)
-oire (passoire)
-onne (mignonne)
-ote (idiote)
-ssion/tion (passion, attention)
Note the above list isn't exhaustive. Exceptions are frequent in French so don't be surprised when you come across one.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for taking the time to write this
Thank uuuuuu very much
U acc took your time lol u care that much
Thanks bro
@@vishalmahajan9732 I'm with you. Je suis d'accord avec vous
I had to study French for so many years during school. In just a few minutes, you summarized what I needed to know and clarify. Merci beaucoup.
Ye suis content pour toi.
Hands down respect that
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2. They have other channels like Spanish, Polish, Japanese, and So many more.
I've learned arabic, it has similarities with French in terms of each noun has a gender and everything else around it would have to 'agree' with it accordingly. But at least in Arabic, 99,9 % of the time you can tell if a noun is masculine/feminine by just looking at the ending of the word. And it makes it a lot more easier to understand.
Agreed, my main language is arabic, it's much easier there's multiple ways to tell if it's a feminine noun or a masculine noun.
Yeah because if a word ends with "ة" its feminine, like " سبورة"
Merci beaucoup. I'm French beginner. I was so confused when see "une pizza" and "un croissant". Now I got it.
duolingo fam lmao
So are u fluent in French now?
lol i think u googled this after the same duolingo lesson as me 😂
@@megjones3350 snap !
@@megjones3350 same🙌🏻
french spelling will forever confuse me lol
French spelling confuses me too, especially when I started learning French, but as I've progressed in the language, I've begun to find it more regular then English, although of course, with tons of exceptions.
Jamie Hogan
Mensa french is a lot harder than english
It means you're not willing to put in work.
Jamie Hogan nice joke
Merci!!! why has no french teacher ever told me this?! and Ive had SO many French teachers...
I know right
because they want you to learn the hard way i.e memorize
@@etienneemond201 I got a test tomorrow even though my french teacher hasn't been in for a long time.
All we have been doing is memorising from books and not actually learning anything and it sucks
@@IDK-qi2it bro I have the exact same situation I have my final french exam tmmrow and I have done any thing my teacher didn't teach me anything
Same
Im learning on duolingo and this is my first mistake
And this mistake wasn’t as easy to fix
So i looked up a way to tell the gender of nouns
Thanks
Meh too
Madame, your communication skills are excellent. You explain things extremely well.
this did help! i've been having trouble differentiating masc and fem. thanks for the help!
Wow that was a wonder, I am watching this video just before my French paper and that was so helpful
Even as native portuguese speaker is hard to tell their gender, this video was really helpful
+João Augusto I think for us that speak a latin language is a little bit more easy to just guess, for example, think the gender on portuguese before saying it in french, I really think the chance for you to guess it right is about 90%.
MERCI BEAUCOUP! Je suis un étudiant, et j’apprendre le Français
Thanks you help a lot soooo much you don’t know how much this means to me.
Because i ALWAYS use duolingo but duolingo doesn’t teach you how to spot masculine and feminine nouns
Candice has the best accent ever! I could listen to her talk all day. ❤
So what is the trick to understand if such words like "fromage" how do we understand them whether they are masculine or feminine ?
Pls try to reply to this Question
Okay so the thing is the only way to tell "as a native french" speaker is to practice with french exercise about feminine and masculine because the thing is that if we wanna know if its masculine or feminine in french we just need to read the sentence to see if it make sence but yall wont know if it does sooo yea sorry to tell ya but your best option is to find some exercise paper or maybe ask a french friend to teach you
Tytytytyty… I’ve got French final tomorrow, but I’ve been improving my cognitive memory. Basically i remember your whole video. Short enough to remember.
Thank you so much! It’s very helpful
French is so easy😙
Until the excetions arrive 😐
I think I see your relative up there in the comments...
u sure bout that?
It's easy asf if you know Latin or Italian..
I wish you’d post more Ask a Teacher videos! I love them….so helpful.
Omg nice series! Hope you guys update more soon.
I'm still taking my french lesson from the basic so it's really helpful if you can do more about the grammar like this! Thanks so much! Merci bc!
Your videos are so helpful madame please make more videos to teach us french
this is extremely helpful, thanks!
Gosh thank you, it turns out to be so easy
my way to distinguish its gender, some rules i have found and it may help...
1)---sion,tion, ---ty(society, anxiety) --------------------F
2)---ending with e-------------F(to be considered as a lot of exceptions though)
3)the word is exactly the same or similar to eng-------------M
4)slang words(mec, truc)(must be also considered the second rule)------------M
second and third rule is on order, for example if it is with e and it is sim or the same to eng, it would be F....
for example, the table would be feminine
So if the noun is masculine and doesn't end in 'e', do you add an 'e' to the end of a masculine noun if the masculine noun is spoken by a female? And do you add another 'e' onto a masculine noun that ends in an 'e' if it is spoken by a female?
Good info. Merci!
Good afternoon,
I wanted to know whether there's a specific rule for exceptional nouns in French. If there's a rule, kindly vlog a video about the topic.
Thank You
Wow after about 5 years, still helpful. Merci Madame.
Plzz teach all the grammar..... Because French is tough for me... Thank u for this video. It's so helpful....
I have long had a question？What is the process of deciding a noun‘s gender in French? Or who decides it? Of course the existing nouns already have their gender. What if there comes a new word? New technology introduces a lot of new words, how to /what is the process to decide a new word's gender? Could you give examples? Merci beaucoup!
This video was very helpful
But what about the word arbre it is masculine and doesn't have this pattern.
So in these cases what should be done?
Very helpful. I've been learning French for years and still make mistakes with noun genders
Thank you so much! It’s confusing but you really helped me! I will watch any video you make !!
Thank you I now have little bit of experience in french
Thanks for this excellent summary and useful initial guessing framework. I was relieved that it was not another " there are so many exceptions, there is no pattern, so just memorise" type of advice, which I find to be totally impractical assuming that there are thousands of nouns.
Great lesson, very informative, thank you. Perhaps you could do an extended video or something on the study by McGill University on gender in French.
Wow, you did a great job. You have helped me a lot in this very short space of time. This video will be of great use to beginners.
Excellent tips. Thank you. i especially appreciated learning the typical suffixes that would trigger a cross to the other gender like 'age" in fromage.
If everything has exception, what is the point?
Nothing but it's really funny to see others people try harder to learn and still makes big mistakes
THANKU TEACHER SO MUCHH !!
ITS HELPS ME A LOT !!
This video has helped me a lot to understand my queries....
thanks ma'am from Anshika, India.
Thank you so much teacher!! Merci Beaucoup, Madame!
French is not much difficult for me to learn as I can speak/write/type Latin and Portuguese..!
Love From India🌺💞🇮🇳
This is super useful. Merci beaucoup!
So let me get this straight.
If a word ends in a, e, i, o, u and sometimes h, its a feminine noun?
And if it ends in a consonant letter, it is masuline?
Thanks!! You really helped me out for exam. If I didn't saw this video I would need to learn it particulary for every word.
So let me make this clear masculine words ending with t,x,m,f,d,l etc are masculine right and femime words ending with e are femime?
Thaanks a lot!!
That helped me so much 🥰🥰😘😘😁😁
It cleared my doubts and it was NOT boring like ither videos
this french pod lessons are very helpful .. Thank you
thank goodness i found this it REALLY helped a lot
Thank you. That helped tremendously.
I'm an Indian.
Thanks for this video
Please give us detailed information about French noun because whole sentence is depends on noun
nouns ending with -age, -ment, -oir, -eau are masculine and the nouns ending with -tion, -sion, -te, -euse are feminine. Are there any exceptions for this rule?
of course ;) cage, image, nage, page, plage, rage are common and feminine
for other cases, I think it must be much rare
Merci beucop madamoiselle......you made me pass my french exam😄😄😇
Wow these are very interesting and so useful
Thank you thank you,👍👍
Thanks a lot
thank you for the wonderful lesson but it still confuses me
Wow, this was very helpful! Thank you!
This helped me a lot I have a test tomorrow 🥲
This is soooo helpful! Merci!
Great explanation and your voice is lovely!
how do you know if a word is masculine singular masculine plural feminine singular and feminine plural??
it was helpful. Merci beaucoup
Thanks alot, I really needed it ❤
Thank a lot! It helped me appear my exam
That was of great help. Thank you.
This is helpful, but what happens when a noun can be written in masculine and feminine, like the word 'abstract', spelt 'abstrait' (m) or 'abstraite' (f) in French. How do you know which version to use?
Can you also explain what are definite articles...
Please....
thank you so much you helped me prepare for exam!
hors et sans et sauf Quelle est la différence entre?
Hello professor
Bonjour professeur
Thanks a lot for your your help and advice.
Have a good time.
Bien travaillé et vous pouvez expliquer pour déclaration clauses dans française merci
Many thanks for the video!!
Go to google translate, get the word you wanna know the gender of, I will use cafétéria, now turn it so it translates from english to french, I typed (The cafeteria)
and it translated as la cafétéria, and then look it translated and added la which means that it's feminine, if it gives le then it's masculine, I think it will automatically pick the right thing for you if it's plural it will make it les, all you have to do then is find the non plural form of the word.
(If it gives you the wrong match to it and you are sure that it messed up then blame google translate not me)
The only catch to this is that you have to know the word in english, which you can find out is easily by making the translate option turn from french to english, type in your french word and get the english translation then go on with the translation.
can you make a video on the basic french conjunctions in present tense
thanks for clearing my doubts
Thanks!!!!!! Your video helped a lot..
It was confusing station for me ( gender) but u clear my doubt Thanks...
Please add more examples
what about for the words that start with l' like l' gomme
very nicely Explained, keep it up !!
Thanks for teaching french
merci madame 🤍 cette leçon est trés utile !
Ma'am this video is very helpful
It looks really hard for a foreign speaker...every time you use a noun, you go on figuring out whether it's feminine or masculine, and you cannot do it if you don't know the spelling or even the correct pronunciation. Why the inventors of these language needed to put genders on non-living things? Haha Oh I'm afraid it will take me a century before I will be good at this.
Mer Mortola French seems to have as many exceptions as English hahaha
i agree with you
Noun by noun, you can do it, mate.
nobody invented French; lol
Don't worry about "feminine " or "masculine". The most important, especially if it is a second language, is to be understood. You will learn the genders by practicing.
Now explain me these 2 pronunciations " spoon" and " flood», so as you can understand, French is not more complicated than English.
Most of the English words are from French words (1/3 to 2/3 according to some sources... It can help when you do not know the french word for... "achever" = " to achieve"
Now good luck !
how do u tell the gender for places such as bibliotheque and magasins.
Thanks i have a french test tommorow
Please suggest me a video about french sentence pattern( Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative and other sentence pattern).How writte a sentence in french and their basic?I see many french sentences.Smething I don't understand their pattern like j'amie means I love or I like. When means like? when love?I don't know.When use (') this sign I don't know.
Hello Madame, sorry to ask this question. I may be disturbing but please help me because I'm a beginner from Ghana.
What is the simple way to help me study french alone to attain perfection as a beginner?
When to use passé composé and imparfait
merci madame
thank you for this video i have my exams of french
nice explaination
Thanks a Lot.I learnt a lot from it!