# French Noun Gender Dataset

`french-noun-gender.csv` lists 141872 French nouns and the grammatical
gender of each one. Two columns:

- `word`: the noun as it is written, with accents.
- `gender`: `masculine`, `feminine`, or `epicene` (used for either gender,
  or where the two sources disagreed).

Generated by m-or-f.com on 2026-09-06.

## Sources

- dict-fr-DELA (pip package, LADL/IGM DELA dictionary) (LGPL-LR): https://github.com/HubTou/dict-fr-DELA
- Wikidata Lexemes (proper nouns) (CC0 1.0): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data

This dataset is a **modified, merged, and reformatted** version of the
sources above: DELA supplies the common nouns, Wikidata supplies proper
nouns (names and places), the data has been normalized and deduplicated,
and clashing genders have been marked `epicene`.

## Licence

Because it contains data from DELA, this dataset is distributed under the
**Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources (LGPL-LR)**, the
same licence as DELA itself: https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPLLR.html

In short: you may use and redistribute it, including in modified form, as
long as redistributed versions stay under LGPL-LR, keep this notice, and
state that they are modified. The Wikidata rows are additionally available
under CC0 1.0 with no conditions.

This licence covers the data file only. It places no requirements on
software that merely reads the file.