I'm learning French and everything has gender. There is no neutral 'they', only a masculine and a feminine version depending on their gender.
Which makes me wonder, are Frenchies free from this annoying bullshit?
bump for francais
bamp
>>51923602
feminine+feminine = elles
masculine+feminine = ils
as soon as there is a masculine word involved, the plural personal pronoun will always be masculine
"on" isn't gendered
>>51923602
Why don't Anglos admit that they are wrong? Some things, such as grammatical gender and the letter A making an ah sound are just universal to Indo-Europeans outside of the land of perfidy.
>>51923822
Yeah but it usually refers to a group of people
>>51923752
So.. no?
>>51923834
Not our fault we're born in to a shit language that facilitates these cunts
>>51923861
indeed
however there are extremely rare "bi-gender" words, like après-midi or enfant, which can be masculine or feminine and therefore don't really have a genre besides the one you give them
most job names ending with -e, -iste or -logue are like this too
>>51923602
They don't have a word for "they" so there's not really a way of addressing people without just taking a 50/50 guess at their gender if they're looking a bit androgynous.
I lived in France for a year and spent a lot of time in gay bars / around lgbt people (including drag queens in fact) and didn't once come across any custom gender pronouns or anyone "non binary" or any of that shit
I don't know how they've created such a gay friendly society without pandering to that group of people
>>51924148
>I don't know how they've created such a gay friendly society without pandering to that group of people
Every time they opened their mouth, France shoved a penis/vagina in it.
>>51924218
is this why you're learning it ?
I knew aussies were closeted homos and currently have a hard time accepting it (that's why the banter level has gone to shit lately)
>>51924409
I'm not OP, fgt.
>>51924480
yeah, sure thing m8
gay bar is that way
>>51923752
whay if we dont know whether "they" masculine or feminine?
>>51924568
OP here, how would you call someone a faggot in French?
>>51924568
Of course you know where the gay bar is.
>>51923602
The only thing that would be close to 'they' in our language would be 'ceci' (it).
>>51924679
Just need to spot aussies.
>>51924679
u wanna root m8?
>>51924953
I'm about to go to sleep.
>>51924662
Pd
"Pèdè"
>>51923752
fucking patriarchy
>>51924662
that's an oxymoron
>>51925239
You mean a tautology?
>>51925239
I don't know if it was a failed insult or on purpose
>>51924788
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be pretty rude to refer to a person as 'ceci'?
In English it's perfectly polite to use 'they'. They might be pissed off that you can't tell what their gender is lmao but it's pretty polite otherwise.
>>51923602
Latin based languages are like that desu
>>51924580
You say ils. The rule is "Masculine wins by default" which every one of these feminist leftist French teachers complains about. Good.
>>51929850
french wimins no they place
>>51923602
Latin languages aren't difficult, gender comes naturally once you get one Latin language down.
