3rd September 2018

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How do you respond to how old are you in French?

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To ask someone's age, you would say:

Quel âge avez-vous ? How old are you, using vous.
Tu as quel âge ? How old are you, using tu and a street French colloquial question form.
Quel âge a-t-il ? How old is he (formal way of asking)
Elle a quel âge ? How old is she (casual street French way)

Keeping this in consideration, what is your name in French informal?

Vocabulary · Asking for one's name · Demander le nom de quelqu'un

Comment vous appelez-vous ? Quel est votre nom ?	How do you call yourself? (formal) What is your name?
Tu t'appelles comment ?	What is your name? (informal)
Je m'appelle… Je suis… Moi, je suis…	My name is… I am… I'm…

What is your name in Japan?

Onamae is "your name" or "the name," and Anata is "you" or "your." So, you can say: Anata no onamae wa? And that's how to ask, "What is your name?" in Japanese.

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Is Cheveux feminine or masculine?

After hours trying to figure out why “cheveux” (hair) is masculine and “chaise” (chair) feminine, you came to the inevitable conclusion: the gender of French nouns was randomly chosen by a bunch of sadistic linguists. You may have heard that there is only one way to know the gender of a noun, to learn it by heart.

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Is the French word maison masculine or feminine?

The feminine noun maison (house) takes the form of la maison (the house), une maison (a house), or les maisons (the houses).

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Is Cheveux singular or plural?

Plural where singular in English. Note that words such as ''holiday'' (vacances) and ''hair'' (cheveux) are always plural in French. The adjectives or verbs following them are also in plural form. Où sont les toilettes s'il vous plaît ?

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Is Famille masculine or feminine?

Like English, all French nouns have a number: singular (one), as in la famille (the family), or plural (more than one), as in les enfants (the children). In some instances, the gender of the noun is apparent: un garçon (a boy) is masculine, whereas une fille (a girl) is feminine.

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Is chat masculine or feminine?

Most nouns that express people or animals have both a masculine and a feminine form. For example, the two words for "the actor" in French are l'acteur (m) and l'actrice (f). The two words for "the cat" are le chat (m) and la chatte (f).

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Is professeur masculine or feminine?

There are some nouns that express entities with gender for which there is only one form, which is used regardless of the actual gender of the entity, for example, the word for person; personne; is always feminine, even if the person is male, and the word for teacher; professeur; is always masculine even if the teacher

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Is La masculine or feminine?

However in French the article (Le, La, Les) will depend on the gender of the noun in question. All the nouns are masculine or feminine. For masculine nouns "The" is Le, whilst for feminine nouns "The" is La. If the noun is plural then "The" becomes Les.

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Is chaise masculine or feminine?

Others are always feminine, like une voiture (a car), une maison (a house), and une école (a school). And some words are the tricksters of the bunch, taking on different meanings with different genders, like livre, which is a book when masculine but a pound when feminine!

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Is it Le or La France?

As French makes a distinction between "masculine and feminine objects", people use le for masculine things/persons and la for feminine things/persons. However, in the plural, only les is used whatever the gender is. When the following noun begins with a vowel, le or la becomes l'.

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Is Fromage masculine or feminine?

Remembering gender. Here are some tips to help you memorise if a noun is masculine or feminine. Masculine nouns end with: -age - le fromage, le garage… (exceptions - la page, la nage, l'image, la cage, la plage)

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What is a bouche?

These, often accompanied by a complementing wine, are served both to prepare the guest for the meal and to offer a glimpse into the chef's approach to the art of cuisine. The term is French and literally means "mouth amuser". The plural form is amuse-bouche or amuse-bouches.

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Is Gomme masculine or feminine in French?

». Hard to say indeed why a biro is masculine (un stylo) while an eraser is feminine (une gomme). A general rule could be that nouns ending in “-e” tend to be feminine.

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Is the French word Ville masculine or feminine?

It says that in literary writings, you should prefer the feminine since you are after all talking about “la ville de Paris”, and since “la ville” is feminine, the adjective is feminine. However, L'Académie does note that the masculine is commonly used in spoken French to describe cities.

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Is a Chien masculine or feminine?

Neil Townsend, Grew up in Belgium, learned French and Dutch, and lived in France. In French, the grammatical gender of the word for dog, chien, is masculine. So, a dog is 'un chien', the dog is 'le chien'.

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Can Perro be feminine?

Perro is a masculine word and it means Dog. There's a feminine version of it by replacing the O with A , but it's not used a lot because it can also be used as an insult , look here Dictionary.

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Is Poisson masculine or feminine?

Animals and inanimate objects, however, are another kettle (poissonière — feminine) of fish (poisson — masculine). In most cases, there's no way to just look at a word and know what gender it is — you have to memorize the gender of each word as you learn it.

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