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Usages of la femme
Ma tante, une femme très calme, arrive demain.
My aunt, a very calm woman, arrives tomorrow.
La femme lit un livre dans le jardin.
The woman reads a book in the garden.
Au feu rouge, la femme à vélo s'arrête toujours.
At the red light, the woman on a bike always stops.
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“How does grammatical gender work in French?”
Every French noun is either masculine or feminine, and this affects the articles and adjectives used with it. "Le" is used with masculine nouns and "la" with feminine ones. Adjectives also change form to match — for example, "petit" (masc.) becomes "petite" (fem.).
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