For example, when you say “the door” in French, it’s feminine; “La porte” instead of “Le porte”. What happens if I use “Le” instead of “La”? Does it change the meaning?
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>What happens if I use “Le” instead of “La”? Does it change the meaning?
In French specifically, it does for a several words. For example, “la tour” is “the tower”, whereas “le tour” is “the tour”, with tour in the English sense (with different connotations, but the same general meaning)
A few examples:
* Une poele is a frying pan, un poele is a wood-burning stove.
* Une moule is a mussel, un moule is a baking pan
* La memoire is the abstract concept of memory, un memoire is either an academic dissertation or sometimes an autobiography
* Une livre is a pound (like the weight), un livre is a book
* Une voile is a sail, un voile is a veil
* La mode means fashion in general, une mode means a specific trend, and un mode is a method of doing something (like English “mode”)
* “Manche” is a word with a bunch of different meanings relating to things that your hands tour or grip, some are male and some are female (for example, a door handle is male, a hand in a card game is female)
* Une vase is basically a muddy area, un vase is a vase in the English sense, for putting flowers in.
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