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Gender neutral language in French: Difference between revisions
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|l'élève | |l'élève | ||
|« <u>Les élèves</u> apprennent leur leçon. » | |« <u>Les élèves</u> apprennent leur leçon. » | ||
|''élève'', starting with a vowel, stays morphologically epicene when combined with the definite article, though not syntactically. | |''élève'', starting with a vowel, stays morphologically epicene when combined with the singular definite article (''la'' and ''le'' becoming ''l''' if followed by a vowel), though not syntactically. | ||
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|un·e enfant | |un·e enfant | ||