What’s on the French Noun Gender poster
16 entries in 3 groups.
Endings are a strong guide, not a law. These cover the large majority of nouns.
- Usually masculine: -age – le fromage, -ment – le gouvernement, -eau – le bureau, -ism…
- Usually feminine: -tion – la nation, -sion – la décision, -té – la liberté, -ée – la…
- Watch out: la page, la plage, l'image — -age exceptions, le musée, le lycée — -ée exc…
Before a vowel both articles become l', which hides the gender. The adjective still has to agree.
Questions about the French Noun Gender poster
- What’s on the French Noun Gender poster?
- 16 entries in 3 groups. Endings are a strong guide, not a law. These cover the large majority of nouns. Usually masculine: -age – le fromage, -ment – le gouvernement, -eau – le bureau, -ism…; Usually feminine: -tion – la nation, -sion – la décision, -té – la liberté, -ée – la…; Watch out: la page, la plage, l'image — -age exceptions, le musée, le lycée — -ée exc…. Before a vowel both articles become l', which hides the gender. The adjective still has to agree.
- Who is the French Noun Gender poster for?
- French Noun Gender belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning french can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the French Noun Gender poster?
- Learn every noun with its article. 'Le livre', never 'livre' — the gender is part of the word. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so French Noun Gender belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with French Noun Gender?
- Adjective Placement, Articles and Avoir & Être sit alongside French Noun Gender in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Adjective PlacementArticlesAvoir & Être
- Is the French Noun Gender poster free to download and print?
- Yes. French Noun Gender downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the French Noun Gender poster print at?
- French Noun Gender is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of French Noun Gender loses nothing.Printing guide
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