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So, do you know this: is France masculine or feminine in FRENCH?
So, do you know this: is France masculine or feminine in FRENCH?
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Feminine and Masculine country names: Feminine country names
The feminine country names that start with a consonant
When the name of a country ends with the letter -e, it is feminine and we put the article in front of this name
La Belgique
La Bulgarie
La France
La Grèce
La Slovaquie
La Suisse
La Syrie
La Thailande
La Tunisie
Here are 6 exceptions: these are masculine country names that end with the letter -e and in front of which we use the article le
Le Bélize
Le Cambodge
Le Mexique
Le Mozambique
Le Suriname
Le Zimbabwe
The feminine country names that start with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u, y)
When the name of a country ends with the letter -e, it is feminine and we put the article l’ in front of this name
L’Algérie
L’Allemagne
L’Angleterre
L’Argentine
L’Espagne
L’Inde
L’Italie
L’Indonésie
L’Irlande
L’Islande
Masculine country names
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The masculine country names that start with a consonant
When the name of a country ends with another letter, it is masculine and we put the article le in front of this name
Le Brésil
Le Canada
Le Cameroun
Le Danemark
Le Ghana
Le Guatemala
Le Honduras
Le Japon
Le Liban
Le Mali
Le Maroc
Le Nicaragua
Le Pakistan
Le Pérou
Le Portugal
Le Qatar
Le Venezuela
The masculine country names that start with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u, y)
L’Afghanistan
L’Angola
L’Azerbaïdjan
L’Equateur
L’Irak
L’Iran
L’Ouganda
L’Ouzbékistan
L’Uruguay
Country names in plural
When the name of a country is in the plural, we put the article les in front of this name
Les Bahamas
Les Bermudes
Les Comores
Les Émirats arabes unis
Les États-Unis
Les Fidgi
Les Îles Féroé
Les Pays-Bas
Les Philippines
Les Seychelles
Country names without articles
Bahreïn
Chypre
Cuba
Djibouti
Haïti
Israël
Kiribati
Madagascar
Malte
Maurice
Monaco
Nauru
Oman
Sainte-Lucie
Saint-Marin
Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines
Sao Tomé-et-Principe
Singapour
Trinité-et-Tobago
Tuvalu et Vanuatu
Exercise
1 – ……………………………………………………… France
2 – …………………………………………………….. Thailande
3 – …………………………………………………….. Italie
4 – …………………………………………………….. Cambodge
5 – …………………………………………………….. Mexique
6 – …………………………………………………….. Comores
7 – …………………………………………………….. Etats-Unis
8 – …………………………………………………….. Pays-Bas
9 – …………………………………………………….. Seychelles
10 – …………………………………………………….. Brésil
11 – …………………………………………………….. Canada
12 – …………………………………………………….. Equateur
13 – …………………………………………………….. Irak
14 – …………………………………………………….. Vénézuela
15 – …………………………………………………….. Monaco
16 – …………………………………………………….. Malte
17 – …………………………………………………….. Singapour
18 – …………………………………………………….. Cuba
19 – …………………………………………………….. Israël
20 – …………………………………………………….. Sainte-Lucie
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