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Old 16.12.2008, 17:23
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Re: Why should a table have a gender?
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Hello,
This is my 5th month in Vaud canton and 3rd since I started taking French lessons. All is well but there is one thing I can't get my head around about French: Gender of nouns. Why should any noun, table, chair, car, pen, door, etc, etc have a gender? Which purpose can it possibly serve?

Slightest insight is welcome.

Best regards
Can Yaver
I asked the same question to my French teacher while I was taking French lessons, her reply was simple-this is how it is in French! When I asked the same question to another teacher, her reply was again the same-this is how it is in French! Its bit difficult to understand and get a grasp of gender of nouns in French but over a period of time, you yourself will feel-this is how it is in French
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