Bon Appétit sees four British students go trolley-to-trolley in a Parisian supermarket, all with the aim of improving their knowledge of French nouns. Split into two teams, this film sees the students ...
If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even inanimate objects— have grammatical gender. Russian, French, Spanish, and Arabic are all examples of such ...
Chicken soup and beef soup. Which is masculine and which is feminine? In English, neither chicken nor beef nor soup has formal gender. Yet most people find the question easy to answer: Chicken soup is ...
IN HER ADVANCED FRENCH THROUGH FILM class this spring, Katherine Dauge-Roth had seven students who identified as women and one who identified as a man. She started using the feminine plural étudiantes ...
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 ...
Possessive adjectives close possessive adjectiveAdjectives that show ownership, eg my, your, his, our. They are placed before a noun, eg my book, your jacket. show whom something or someone belongs to ...
Making 'Covid' a feminine noun in French may have encouraged people to take the virus less seriously and take fewer precautions, according to a study at a Paris-based business school. In the first ...
When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...