There are some patterns that can help you determine the gender of a new word - here are noun endings that are usually masculine.
There's no simple trick to knowing the gender of every single French noun (other than looking in a dictionary), but there are several categories of words that are always or usually masculine.
France is famous for its cuisine, but navigating French menus can be a bit tricky due to both language and cultural differences. Here's everything you need to know about the different types of French menus and the most important meal(s) of the day.
Discovering, organizing, and remembering vocabulary is one of the foundations of language learning, yet it can be utterly overwhelming. You're constantly exposed to new words in lessons, conversations ... how can you possibly keep track of them all - not to mention remember them? Introducing MiVoca, an online app that tracks and tests all your words in a single location.
Learn the essential French vocabulary for earning, spending, investing, and saving money.
Start learning French or just satisfy your curiosity with this list of the most common French words, with links to detailed lessons.
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Lights! Camera! Action (verbs)! Learn French vocabulary related to movies, cinemas, and the Cannes film festival.
Multiplicative numbers are, unsurprisingly, words used to multiply nouns. The numbers themselves can be adjectives or nouns - either way, their gender agrees with the nouns they modify / replace.
Music is a language unto itself, and yet we need our own language to talk about it. The French names for musical genres are often the same as in English, but there's still plenty of French vocabulary to be learned.
Do you play a musical instrument? Here are the most common ones, in French, along with the grammar you need to play them.
Every country and continent has an adjective that can be used to describe people and things from that place. Those same adjectives can also be used as nouns to refer to people from that place, with one small change in French.
The French adjectives
neuf and
nouveau can be tricky for French students because they are both equivalent to "new" but are not interchangeable. Here's a new look at these timeless French foes.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are holidays in much of the world - here's the French vocabulary you need to celebrate on December 31 and January 1st.
No. No way, not me, on the contrary ... let's face it, just because we have to be negative sometimes doesn't mean we can't be creative, too. Here are some of the many ways to say no in French.
Vocabulaire
Verb conjugation tables for more than 1,600 French verbs in all the simple and compound tenses and moods.
In English, we say that the vowels are "a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y." The last couple of words hint at one of the keys to understanding pronunciation: a vowel is not so much a letter as the sound represented by a letter or combination of letters.
