All about French Nouns: Focus on Gender
                       by
                   Mary Naber Burns
                   ISBN: 1-58112-871-1
                   Universal Publishers
                       1998
                 All about French Nouns: Focus on Gender
                  Copyright (c) 1998 Mary Naber Burns
                      All rights reserved.
                     ISBN: 1-58112-871-1
                 Universal Publishers/UPUBLISH.COM
                         1998
        ALL ABOUT FRENCH NOUNS: FOCUS ON GENDER
                   by
                Mary Naber Burns
       Of the forty-three thousand words in a comprehensive French
     dictionary, almost thirty-three thousand are nouns.  Determining  the
     gender of these nouns is one of the great stumbling blocks on the road to
     learning French.  Although it is true that gender becomes a factor in
     dealing with articles, adjectives, past participles and pronouns, these four
     parts of speech modify or refer to nouns, whether expressed or implied;
     noun gender is always the initiating factor.  Noun gender is the problem.
      Burns--2
                       CONTENTS
      The Two Basic Rules of Gender  ..................................................4
      The Optionals and the Basic Method  ..............................................7
         Optional List (sex-determined nouns)  .......................................11
      The Feminine List (introduction)  ................................................27
         Feminine List (exceptions to the masculine rule)  ..............................30
      The Masculine List (introduction)  ...............................................46
         Masculine List (exceptions to the feminine rule)  ..............................48
      The Homonyms (introduction)  ..................................................80
          Homonym List (meaning-determined nouns)  ................................82
      The Masculine Rule List  .......................................................89
      The Feminine Rule List  .......................................................212
         Feminized Nouns (equivalents of masculine nouns)  ..........................296
      Statistics (rules versus exceptions)  ..............................................313
      Synopsis  ..................................................................314
      Appendix  ..................................................................316
         Abridged List   ........................................................317
            Optionals  ......................................................317
            Feminine  ......................................................318
            Masculine  .....................................................321
         All Exact Cognates (7186, anglicized and alphabetized)  .......................323
         All Exceptions (both genders, alphabetized for reference)  ......................365