French Noun Gender Guides
Everything on this site about French noun gender, in one place. New to it? Start with the complete guide. Need a specific answer? Use the lookup tool.
Guides
- French Noun Gender: A Complete Guide
- Start here. What gender changes, how much of it you can predict, and how to learn the rest.
- Gender Rules by Ending
- The reference tables: which endings signal which gender, how reliable each pattern is, and the exceptions.
- Gender by Category
- Whole groups that share a gender: languages, days, countries, metals, colors, and more.
- Nouns That Change Meaning by Gender
- Words like le / la livre and le / la tour, where the gender decides the meaning.
- Nouns English Speakers Get Wrong
- The gender everyone guesses wrong, grouped by why, including the Spanish-cognate traps.
- Memory Tricks
- Techniques for remembering the words that break the patterns, and the exceptions to learn cold.
Downloads
- Printable Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- A free two-page summary of the ending rules, the categories, and the exceptions.
- French Noun Gender Dataset (CSV)
- A free CSV of about 142,000 nouns and the gender of each one.