French Nouns, Genders & Articles

Most French nouns tell you their gender in their last few letters. This book takes the endings one family at a time, each with a cut-paper picture and its real exceptions, then shows how le, un, du and au work. You stop guessing and start knowing.

95 pages · 40 endings and articles

Every rule comes with how far to trust it, and the exceptions worth knowing

How to say every word, and a "Your turn" with answers on every page

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What's inside

All 40 endings and articles, in order, with the page each one opens on. Every one is a full cut-paper picture with the teaching on the facing page.

Endings that say lemasculine endings

8 -age
nearly always le
10 -ment
le
12 -eau
le
14 -isme
le
16 -oir
le
18 -et
le
20 -al
le
22 -ier
le
24 -in, -ain
le
26 -on
usually le
28 -eur: people and machines
le
30 a final consonant
usually le
32 -o, -ou, -a, -i
usually le

Endings that say lafeminine endings

36 -tion
nearly always la
38 -sion
la
40 -aison
la
42 -té
la
44 -ette
la
46 -ance, -ence
la
48 -ure
la
50 -ie
la
52 -ée
la
54 -ade
la
56 -esse
la
58 -ise
la
60 -ine
la
62 -elle, -enne, -onne, -ille
la
64 -eur: qualities and feelings
la

When the ending won't tell youand what to do then

68 a final -e
no promise
70 -ème, -ome, -amme
le, against the look of it
72 one word, two genders
two meanings
74 people and animals
follows the person

The articlesthe little words in front

78 le, la, l', les
the
80 un, une, des
a, an, some
82 du, de la, des
some
84 au, à la, à l', aux
to the, at the
86 du, de la, des again
of the, from the
88 le for likes and big ideas
the, where English says nothing
90 de after pas and after amounts
no, a lot of, a kilo of
92 no article at all
when French leaves it out

Inside the book

Real pages, straight from the PDF: how the book works, then one complete spread — the picture, and the facing page that teaches from it.

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