PARIS (AFP) — Bread is masculine, beer feminine. In French, every noun has a gender, and that includes the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Covid-19 is feminine — to be used with the article ...

For months, the people of France have faced an énigme. Was Covid-19, the new coronavirus tearing across the globe, masculine or feminine? Grammatically speaking, that is. In practical terms, should ...

It might be a while before “iel” is used at Yale. “Iel,” a gender-neutral combination of the French masculine pronoun “il” and the feminine pronoun “elle”, entered a French dictionary on Nov. 16, ...