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L'Académie Française existed since the 18th century to make the language too complex "for the common and the women"
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English is such a poor language that they only have the article The and nouns without genders.
Seethe and cope.
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Try Polish. Our verbs and adjectives are also gendered.
A washing machine is feminine, how is it in french?
I do not respect gendered languages. I will not apologize for misgendering a pencil. The right form of "the" for an apple is "the apple."
I'm just happy that washing machine has the same gender in French as my language and not a different one
female of course
It's the same gender than all machines, which is obviously feminine.
There's no fixed rule for this but if a noun ends with a consonant it's probably masculine and if it ends with a vowel it's possibly feminine. Again, not a consistent rule and it will not work for everything, but if you must take a guess, this might help, or not.
Now this reminds me of Sebastian Marx and his videos on French. Like this one on pronunciation.