"Le" or "la"? Even the French can't decide

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3-02-2008 @ 4:51PM

jon said...

Every french person I know just says use the one that feels right - some words just don't flow right (la france or le france, which trips off the tounge better?) with the wrong gender and the more you use french, the more you get a feel for this flow

Although they did tell me that foreign words in french (le piquenique, le weekend) are always masculine.

5-12-2008 @ 8:35PM

eric said...

Le French is a cruise ship, La France is the mother country, but even in English we use the feminine gender when we speak about boat, why?
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