C'est de famille ! Gender and number agreement with nouns
Learning outcomes
I can apply rules to ensure gender and number agreement of nouns when describing family
I can recognise, write and pronounce a range of different feminine and plural forms of nouns.
C'est de famille ! Gender and number agreement with nouns
Learning outcomes
I can apply rules to ensure gender and number agreement of nouns when describing family
I can recognise, write and pronounce a range of different feminine and plural forms of nouns.
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Key learning points
- There are 4 ways to turn a masculine noun into a feminine noun: add an e, change article, -n to -nne, -eur to -rice.
- If a masculine noun ends in -e, there's no change for feminine; if it ends in -s or -x, there's no change for plural.
- We usually make nouns plural by adding -s. Nouns ending in -eu, -(e)au, -al, or -ail make their plurals with -x.
- [ien] sounds like 'bien', [eu/oeu] sounds like 'coeur', [eu] sounds like 'deux' and [au] sounds like 'gauche'.
Keywords
[o], [au], [eau] - all oropronounced like the [o] in moto
Agreement - the way , adjec or nouns change according to gender and number
Common misconception
The only way to form the singular of a feminine noun is to add -e. The only way to form the plural of a noun is to add -s.
There are 4 ways to form feminine nouns which need careful practice. Similarly, there is more than one way to form plural nouns depending upon the final letter of the singular noun.
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