Masculine and Feminine. In French all nouns have a gender, either masculine or feminine. The articles agree with the nouns they refer too, so they also have a gender. Except for animals and humans, most of the time, gender is arbitrary.A table is feminine (la table), whereas the sun is masculine (le soleil). 1  1.2  Articles:he articles agree with the nouns they refer too, so they also have a gender. Except for animals and humans, most of the time, gender is arbitrary. A table is feminine (la table), whereas the sun is masculine (le soleil). 1  1. 2  Articles:
In French, Ãªtre means: to be. Listen to Ãªtre: (If you have an HTML5 enabled browser, you can listen to the native audio below) This is a word that is used in the GamesForLanguage French Language Game in the following scenes: French 1, Level 2, Scene 1. French 1, Level 1, Scene 1. French 1, Level 3, Scene 6.
1 The verb is one of 16 special verbs that take etre. 2  Ãªtre, Arrive, ArrivÃ©, Alle, AllÃ©, Venu, Devenu, Revenu, Entre, EntrÃ©, Rentre, RentrÃ©, Descendu, Retourne, RetournÃ©, Reste. 3  RestÃ© monte montÃ© parti sorti tombe tombÃ© ne nÃ© mort note, that when a direct object.  is used with these verbs the auxiliary verb becomes avoir The tense of the verb depends upon the tense that avoir or etre Ãªtre is conjugated. 2  In when the auxiliary verb is conjugated in the passe, passÃ© compose, composÃ© for example the auxiliary verb is conjugated in.  the present indicative