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How to be gender neutral when speaking french?
My significant other is agender and I speak french as my first language. They speak french ok too and I would love to talk to them in french more often but it's hard because in french everything is gendered. Does anyone know how/if you can be gender neutral in french? It would be a huge help.
2 Answers
- ?Lv 75 years ago
There are no pronouns, nouns or adjectives that are made to be gender neutral but when something has no specified gender, it's by default referred to with the masculine gender.
Don't fall in the trap of thinking that sexual gender = grammatical gender.
They are totally different things.
- Anonymous5 years ago
As a French speaker, you must surely have heard the pronoun "on".