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[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

La machine à laver

Le lave linge

It's beautiful 🙃

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People trying to justify french nouns gender thinking of people's gender really are missing the point. Whether a word is masculine or feminine is totally arbitrary and in no way shape or form do french people even remotely think about it. Words are words, when we learn a word we learn whether it's "le" or "la". And even us frenchies get them wrong all the time, words most people never remember include petale, tentacule, mi-temps, après-midi and its totally fine to use either when you dont know 🤷

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly.

After a while, most words (with exceptions) just 'feel' like one gender or the other, but nobody ever thinks about it in terms of 'sex'. I barely even think about it at all, and I've only been speaking French daily for a couple years at this point.

Although it still bothers me that 'silicone' is feminine. It's just not logical.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The polymer silicone is masculine 👌just the chemical is feminine apparently

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Typical.

La richesse de la langue ne cesse jamais de m'étonner.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It's so hard for no reason 😑