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Usages of y
En ville, les embouteillages sont longs, mais les citadins s'y habituent.
In the city, traffic jams are long, but city dwellers get used to them.
Je n'y retourne pas demain.
I am not going back there tomorrow.
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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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