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: Learn French ending patterns to know the genders of most of the French nouns
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Feminine
Masculine
-e
Most countries and names that end in e are feminine
-ade
-nde
-ude
-de
-mme
-me
-isme
-ce
-ace
-ance
-age
-ége
-ale
-ole
-lle
-ule
-ble
-cle
-se
-ise
-esse
-ire
-iére
-rre
-ure
-tre
-ue
-ique
-ite
-ste
Exceptions: dual-gender nouns like un(e) artiste, un(e) nudiste, etc.
-ine
-nne
-one
-be
-ee
-ée
-fe
-ie
-cé
-sé
-té
-tié
-é
-r
-oir
-eur
Mainly abstract qualities and emotions, except le bonheur, l'exterieur, l'honneur, l'interieur, le malheur, le meilleur.
-eur
Nouns that perform an action or professions are always masculine
-ion
-sion
-son
-tion
-n
-b
-c
-d
-f
-ing
-k
-l
-m
-p
-s
-x
-t
-et
-ment
-i
-o
Most of exceptions are apocopes of longer feminine words.
-u
-ou
-eau
