hello everyone and welcome back to the perfect friendship with dinana today we have a very important lesson we are going to learn everything about the gender of nouns in french i know this is a very big subject for french learners i'm going to try to give you some a very specific type of nouns that are always feminine and always masculine we are going to learn also a few countries we are going to see a lot this is going to be a little bit of a long lesson so just grab a coffee grab your book because you have a lot of exercises with this one and as i say this is a long lesson so we are going to go from page 15 to page 23. the list on the book can be a little bit long because of that i'm not giving everything on the video lesson because it will be too long but you have the audio that you can download after after finishing this video please the audio only includes the list this is not an audio book and it's only the french the french word french list the french sentences so a noun in french just like in english can represent many many things it can represent an object a telephone a phone a person a num a man an animal a shia a dog or a place anvil a city and many many more they are very important in any languages the more you know the more you will be able to understand the more you will be able to express yourself and the more you will be able to reach the level of freelance the level of fluency that you want all the nouns in french are feminine or masculine and there is no neutral once again no neutral in french everything is masculine or feminine in this lesson i try to keep everything with a and since we already saw an in and also because it's easier to see if a noun is feminine or masculine we talked about that when we saw yesterday so i'm not going to come back on that but i try to use it as much as possible sometimes i had to use other articles and i will talk about it when we come to it so let's start sometimes in french the gender of noun is very easy to understand if you say anger song obviously this is a masculine if you say infini obviously this is a feminine same for a noma in farmer this is what we call the obvious gender very easy to understand i'm not going to spend more time on this one so that's the first step for french another easiest one then we have the 90 ruler and i always advise you to use that when you start learning french don't use it too long or if you really see a word and you don't know the gender you know also use that rule but he only works 90 of the time and as usual in french the 10 is obviously what we use the most so yeah just use that at the beginning don't use it too much but the 90 rule is that 90 of the word ending in uh your e are feminine any other letter 90 of the time is going to be masculine and plant inferned in coverture obviously this will only work for the spelling when you read because when i pronounce it since we don't pronounce the last letter of the word which is usually uh and in this case it's uh that doesn't give you any indication of the word of the gender if i just read it so this only works for spelling it's a masculine noun that doesn't end in uh we have a future so this is easy this is the 90 ruler like i said the 10 are the one that we use the most so let's not use that one too long but lucky you some endings in french are typical for masculine noun and order for feminine noun we are going to start with the masculine ones when a noun ends in a l o ak it's going to be a masculine noun such as an obstacle i'm not going to give you the translation otherwise this lesson is going to be too long the translation in english is always on the screen and in the book second one is a uh even though there's a little accent on top we have two exceptions here we have in page and in plage they are very close to each other so make sure to remember together then we have a l another very specific one is in the same type as we have pronounced is always masculine as well and it's pronounced e e o as well pronounced izuma isma an organism and prisma m-o-n-t pronouns an argument we have an exception here it's in prison so besides some very specific ending we have also topics that are masculine only such as days of the week we have lelandi le mardi le mercedes etc seasons are always masculine as well an 8. languages in french do not have a capital letter wade and matrix are also always masculine ankita met a little and grammar english word used in french are also always masculine and we have a lot so those are quite easy we have a weekend an email a parking now let's see the feminine nouns just like for the masculine ones we have specific endings that are always feminine or almost ending in a d a pronounced ada always feminine always feminine pronouns allah in revel in coral very easy because it's pronounced exactly the same as a nco as well unexist at careful that is here at the end we saw o for masculine this one is victoire s e o n pronouns zio in television and here because we have two s the pronunciation changes also i know i'm going to get many many comments like every day about the way that i pronounce pronunciation i cannot pronounce it right yet it will come there's no need to leave me comments under all the videos where i say it it's sometime it takes time learning takes time it's fine just yeah i'm sorry then we have t the exception is anite which is a season so it's masculine then we have t e o n pronounced in partition very easy to pronounce uh maybe not as easy as ever another in you can pause the video and do the exercises 1.3 and 1.4 now we have some very specific nouns for professions and people some nouns are not going to change depending on the gender only the article in front is going to change i'm giving you four you have more example in the book we have an architect an architect a colleague in college so for those this is very easy you just change the article in front but we have a lot of nouns in french that are going to change especially the one referring to once again professions and people most likely we are going to add on the end and this will most likely change the pronunciation of the word though you will not change your pronunciation if the word end with a void such as an aponti una ponti an nami so here it's all about the spelling but if the word ends with a consonant we are going to add o at the end and this will change the pronunciation we are an avocad in avocad and if you remember on the pronunciation course i told you that a dna in french is a little bit like a superhero that's why i used to explain to a very young student anyway very well basically just give his power to the letter before that so the letter before is pronounced but we don't pronounce the okay there's a superhero that stays anonymous i don't know if that works but i think i'm crazy so an avocado we never cat so we pronounce the t at the end because the o gave his power to the to the letter before okay let's see other consonants we have ankusa in cuisine so here pregnancy should change as well an angle in english also apparently uh just disappear when i wrote the book i don't know en francais en francaise sometimes adding is not always enough so some spellings are going to change we sometimes have to add an accent the ending f is going to become an affirmation when the ending is we are going to have o u s o for the feminine and quaffer in quefus enchanter enchantes when the masculine is e-o-n in two very specific cases it's not as common we have a patron in patrona and then we have an in barona all the rules that we are seeing right now are going to be very useful when we see the adjectives in french you will understand later why but make sure to study very well the rule that we are seeing now so later it would be much easier do you remember in the conjugation course i told you to study very very well the present tense because we use it a little bit all the time after this is kind of the same process here make sure to know your basic roles very well because they will come back a lot later other ones we have some very specific ones that go from f to v and i should have added a here after the v on the book just realized that now we have av and verb same thing for x becoming s the last two rules here with x and f are very specific to this but we'll have more in the adjectives this is why i include all the type of words at the beginning because that would be very useful after when you're good you can do the exercise 1.5 another thing that's very fun about genders in french is that countries also have genders so the country where you live or where you're at now is either feminine or masculine in french and this is very easy to remember i told you about the 90 rule this work as well with countries so when a country ends with earth it's feminine when a country ends with anything else it's masculine besides le mexic mexic is masculine even though this one ends with then we have the plural countries such as united states philippines netherlands those one are basically just plural so let's see a few we've also nationalities because of course nationalities are going to change depending if it's a masculine or feminine so we have larger larger is feminine i put the f between brackets we can't really see it with the article because it's a lapostrov and then we see the nationalities we have an algerian i gave you six more but there's a whole list on the book okay we have listed an american american land feminine an india don't forget that if you bought the book you also have access to the audio for the whole list and then you can do the exercise 1.6 two more points and then we're done i swear i'm sorry this lesson is very long but we really cover everything now we have nouns with a specific gender no matter if the person is feminine or masculine let's see a few and baby baby is always going to be masculine no matter if it's a girl or a boy no matter a star always feminine no matter if it's i don't know tom cruise doesn't matter the rock doesn't matter whoops this is another term for star as well always feminine in victim always feminine and then we have a few that are very confusing because it's basically the same noun with different gender different meaning if you say le mor le mor is a dead person but if you say la mo is the death so that's good to know if you say rochelle this is good cheese if is the vase to put the flower in but lavazz is the mother but actually the the one underwater you can't say lavazz if you just see it on the ground that's different you have a long list in the book the other one you're not going to encounter them too much but i still adding them to a complete lesson because i like my lesson to be very complete that's it for today i will see you tomorrow for another long lesson because tomorrow we are going to learn the plural of nouns adam [Music]