What is it? Naming belongings with 'un' and 'une'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'un' and 'une' to name belongings in French.
I can recognise and pronounce [un].
What is it? Naming belongings with 'un' and 'une'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'un' and 'une' to name belongings in French.
I can recognise and pronounce [un].
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Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [un] is a nasal vowel sound; ‘un’ means 'a/an' and number one in French.
- All nouns have grammatical gender, masculine or feminine.
- The masculine word for 'a/an' is 'un', the feminine word is 'une'; these determiners are called indefinite articles.
Keywords
[un] - sound-symbol correspondence
Indefinite articles - the two words 'un' and 'une' meaning 'a/an'
Grammatical gender - a way to categorise nouns as masculine or feminine
Common misconception
Grammatical gender is the same as biological gender. If a word is feminine we think of it as female, if it is masculine we think of it as male.
Grammatical gender is not the same as biological gender. All French nouns are either masculine or feminine, whether they name people, places or things.
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