Masculin ou Féminin? How to Know

Learning the gender of nouns in French is a difficult task for second language learners. While a word's gender is sometimes apparent, most of the time it's not. In this video, I discuss the significance of knowing the gender of nouns, a few patterns that can help you remember a noun's gender and learning strategies to help improve your ability to decipher between nouns that are masculine and feminine.

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[karlneumann]

How does this guy have only a few hundred views. You are clearly the best French teacher on the platform!

[noelforde]

I need more videos please, don't stop. These resources are gold

[neelanjanachatterjee]

I am Indian and speak Bengali as my mother tongue. The other language that I frequently use is English and none of these languages have the masculine feminine rules. I memorised words with indefinite articles and that helped. Normally words ending with 'eau' are masculine . So, while writing a dictation for the exam there was a sentence where a girl sat next to cet eau or cette eau. I went by the masculine option only to find that I was wrong. At least I will never get the gender of 'eau' incorrect ever.

[aohoaam]

Hi, just wanna say that I LOVE your videos, they are easy to understand and you point out almost everything important things that we should remember. What I do is I first watch your videos to get main points, then check the grammar book to add up more details and finally, practice.
Thanks a lot for doing this and BON COURAGE!

[hansjorie]

Thanks for your wonderful tips. I just started

[Deepthought-]

A fun and mischievously sexist game to play between francophiles of different is to argue that that “nice” words are masculine whereas “not so nice” words are often feminine. E.g. Le soleil, La tempête etc.
There are masses of exceptions and it can get quite lively after a glass or two of wine. It’s surprising how well they stick in your memory after despite the alcohol.
Very sociable and far better than lists.

[tsunayoshisawada]

Actually, normally every job name is male-exclusive (while the topic of the job is almost always female)
Currently, tho, we do use the female version of jobs, so that'd not be a problem, but some jobs are actually different if you use the male or female version
(exemple: tapissier et tapissiere are 2 different jobs, not just the same job but for a girl or a boy)
Other than those very few exemple (tbh I only know the one, since of my friend is une tapissier), the video's point is very great and well explained.

[AaradhayaBhatia]

I have my French exam the day after tomorrow 😢😢😭😭😭

[lucasbourriau]

I'm french and i was recommended this xD

[gmicg]

All Latin languages have genders. So do Slavic ones.

[fireaboutaspect]

j'mappelle croissant petite 🙄🙄😏😏🤑🤑🤑😝😝😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🤩🤩😘😘😘😛😊😋😋

[ouvretagueulestp]

Mais jpp APPRENEZ PAS LE FRANCAIS C'EST TELLEMENT COMPLIQUÉ 🤣😭 ELLE EST SI MOCHE EN PLUS