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|« <u>Les</u> destinat<u>aires</u> ne recevront pas leur colis à temps. » | |« <u>Les</u> destinat<u>aires</u> ne recevront pas leur colis à temps. » | ||
|Notice the epicene agentive suffix [https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/-aire -aire] | |Notice the epicene agentive suffix [https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/-aire -aire]. | ||
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As singular [[wikipedia:Article_(grammar)|articles]] indicate gender ('la' and 'le'), this technique works best with plural forms. However, it also works with singular forms if the noun begins with a vowel, because the article automatically becomes ''l''', which does not express gender. A drawback is that there are not morphologically invariant occupational titles for all professions or functions in regards to [https://www.plus.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Gender_in_German_MWerner.pdf ''Sexus''].<ref name=":0" /> | As singular [[wikipedia:Article_(grammar)|articles]] indicate gender ('la' and 'le'), this technique works best with plural forms. However, it also works with singular forms if the noun begins with a vowel, because the article automatically becomes ''l''', which does not express gender. A drawback is that there are not morphologically invariant occupational titles for all professions or functions in regards to [https://www.plus.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Gender_in_German_MWerner.pdf ''Sexus''].<ref name=":0" /> | ||