Gender neutral language in French: Difference between revisions
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!analytic neutral | !analytic neutral | ||
!synthetic neutral | !synthetic neutral | ||
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! colspan="4" |Endings from Latin -or, -rix and medieval French -euse | |||
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!-eux/-euse | !-eux/-euse | ||
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!-eur/-_resse<sup>1</sup> | !-eur/-_resse<sup>1</sup> | ||
|docteur | |docteur | ||
|doct | |doct<u>o</u>resse<ref>Doctoresse Joséphine Tornay. Online at: https://cm-latour.ch/team/josephine-tornay-medecine-interne-generale/. Very common Swiss French denomination for female doctors.</ref> | ||
|docteuresse | |docteuresse | ||
|doctaire | |doctaire | ||
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!-eur/-_resse<sup>2</sup> | !-eur/-_resse<sup>2</sup> | ||
|enchanteur | |enchanteur | ||
|enchant | |enchant<u>e</u>resse | ||
|enchanteuresse | |enchanteuresse | ||
|enchantaire | |enchantaire | ||
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|maîtré/maîtrè | |maîtré/maîtrè | ||
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!-ain/ine | ! | ||
! colspan="4" |Endings with nasal vowels | |||
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!-ain/-ine | |||
|cop<u>ain</u> | |cop<u>ain</u> | ||
|copin<u>e</u> | |copin<u>e</u> | ||
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!-in/ine | !-in/-ine | ||
|cousin [kuz<u>ɛ̃</u>] | |cousin [kuz<u>ɛ̃</u>] | ||
|cousine [kuzi<u>n</u>] | |cousine [kuzi<u>n</u>] | ||
|cousinn [kuz<u>ɛ̃n</u>] | |cousinn [kuz<u>ɛ̃n</u>] | ||
|cousaine [kuzɛn] | |cousaine [kuzɛn] | ||
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!-ien/-ienne | |||
|citoyen [sitwaj<u>ɛ̃</u>] | |||
|citoyenne [sitwajɛ<u>n</u>] | |||
|citoyenn [sitwaj<u>ɛ̃n</u>] | |||
|citoyan | |||
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!-un/-une | |||
|brun [bʀ<u>œ̃</u>] | |||
|brune [bʀy<u>n</u>] | |||
|brunn [bʀ<u>œ̃n</u>] | |||
|bran | |||
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!-an/-anne | |||
|paysan [pɛiz<u>ã</u>] | |||
|paysanne [pɛiza<u>n</u>] | |||
|paysann [pɛiz<u>ãn</u>] | |||
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! | ! | ||