Find the gender of French nouns
Knowing if a noun is masculine or feminine is important in French. This will help you know if you should use `le` or `la`, `au` or `à la`, `un` or `une`, etc.
means female, wife, woman (EN) and is
Recently
These are the words you or others have most recently looked up.
✎ Recently Added
♀ Feminine
♂ Masculine
Practise makes perfect
Try a few words, even if you don’t know them, and see if you can guess which it is.
We will give you tips along the way!
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Other resources
Learning how to figure out the one from the other is also possible, check out these sites:
- How to easily guess the gender of French nouns with 80% accuracy
- How do you work out the gender of French nouns?
About this project
I started learning French using Duolingo but found that I didn’t clearly understand or kept stumbling on the gender of several nouns.
I built this page to help me remember it.
It’s all open source and you can fork this or contribute at our github page
Anytime words are reported missing from the dictionary, I'm adding them in one by one.
October 15, 2023
Good news! I've added support for lookups of plural nouns. It's not perfect but hopefully it should catch most cases.