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Usages of le neveu
Mon neveu demande pourquoi le fiancé de Marie sourit autant, et ma nièce veut voir la bague.
My nephew asks why Marie’s fiancé is smiling so much, and my niece wants to see the ring.
Plus tard, ma fiancée raconte à mon neveu et à ma nièce comment nous nous sommes rencontrés.
Later, my fiancée tells my nephew and my niece how we met.
Mon neveu est censé dormir, mais il écoute encore la conversation sur les fiançailles depuis le couloir.
My nephew is supposed to be asleep, but he is still listening to the conversation about the engagement from the hallway.
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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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