nouns

All the persons, places, and things you can shake a stick at.

Grammar Lessons

To Make – Faire vs Rendre

Faire vs rendreWhen someone is made to feel a certain way, that feeling is always expressed in English with an adjective: happy, ashamed, thirsty, etc. In French, however, some feelings are adjectives while others are nouns - and these two different parts of speech require different verbs. When it comes to feelings, the French equivalent of "to make" may be rendre, faire, or donner, depending on whether the feeling is an adjective or a noun.

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Grammar Lessons

Unisex Nouns

French unisex nouns
One of the first - and possibly worst - things French students learn is that all nouns have a gender, either masculine or feminine. The good news is more than 100 can be either - though they may tend toward one gender or the other.

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