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French Language – Animate Nouns and Gender Posted by Transparent Language on Dec 11, 2008
We could say that there are six different types of nouns: animate nouns (people, animals), inanimate nouns (things, ideas), proper nouns (such as cities and names), common nouns (such as avenue, liberté), simple nouns (such as fourchette, papier, ami) and compound nouns (such as croque-monsieur, boîte aux lettres). Today, we’re going to talk about animate…