Same is true about second language French speakers. We conjugate articles with their nouns. E.g. “the father and the mother” would be “le père et la mère” (le/la is the same definite article in masculine/feminine form, it has no neutral form). English speakers get rightfully confused. It gets even more confusing as there’s a clear trend in the language where many feminine gendered words end with an E (porte/door, table/table, arme/weapon), but not always (nuage/cloud, véhicule/vehicle).
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Compared to English - yeah, but in general there’s nothing extreme about genders in French.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
In what sense? If anything, the very concept of “everything is gendered” makes it sit at one extreme of the spectrum of languages, in the very literal sense of the word, wouldn’t you agree?
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It has only genders, and they don’t affect verb inflections.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Are there languages with more than 2 genders? That sounds interesting.