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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Does French have a third word for grammatical gender?

I found this site for French etymology (I think) but it's difficult for me to understand.

[–]Wrencer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you mean, if a word is "masculin ou féminin"? Like, in English it's always "the" but in French we have "le" (masculin) and "la" (féminin). Like, it's "the book" ("le livre", masculin) and the door ("la porte", féminin).

There isn't another word, it's "le genre grammatical"

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Do you mean, if a word is "masculin ou féminin"?

Yeah, that's what I mean, English doesn't have it but I hear some other languages do. I ask because of the other poster who said in her language, the word for grammatical gender had recently become used like "gender" is used in English.