French B

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French B is one of the IB Group 2 subjects.
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I did not write this guide - it was posted by Elric on ibscrewed.net but I thought it was extremely helpful (I even used it to help some kids I was tutoring) so I'm posting it here:
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=Articles, Noms, Pronoms, et Adjectifs=
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==Le genre==
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All nouns in French have two genders: masculine and feminine. We place le, un before a masculine noun and la, une before a feminine noun, e.g.
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le garçon
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la fille
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i. Masculine
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*Nouns ending in –age and –ment tend to be masculine, e.g.
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le message
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le sentiment
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*Nouns ending with a consonant are sometimes masculine, e.g.
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le restaurant
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le chocolat
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ii. Feminine
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*Nouns ending in –ure, -sion, -tion, -ence, -ance, -té, -ette , -n, -e, -de, -ble, -esse, etc. tend to be feminine, e.g.
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la couverture
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la vision
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la vérification
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la conférence
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la balance
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la compatibilité
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la cassette
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la main
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la forme
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la méthode
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la noblesse
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iii. Both masculine & feminine :
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Add “e” at the end to obtain the feminine form of some nouns:
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l’ami – l’amie
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le français – la française
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Of course there are exceptions and you must memorise the gender that go with each noun.
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Note: Some nouns have different meanings in masculine and feminine forms:
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le livre (book) vs la livre (pound)
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le rose (colour rose) vs la rose (flower)
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le page (pageboy) vs la page (page)
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Note: It is necessary to memorise nouns that have irregular endings for masculine & feminine nouns, e.g.
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le vendeur – la vendeuse
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l’étranger – l’étrangère
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l'italien – l'italienne
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etc.
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==Le nombre==
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We pluralise a noun by adding “s” to the end of the noun, e.g.
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le jour – les jours
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For a noun that already ends with “s”, keep it as it is:
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le français – les français
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==L’article défini==
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The French definite articles “le” and “la” are equivalent to the English definite article “the”.
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le and la becomes l’ before a vowel, e.g. l’ami, l’écriture
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Before a plural noun, le and la become les, e.g. les trucs, les écoles
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===Les formes contractées===
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à le – au
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à les – aux
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de le – du
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de les – des
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