In French, nouns are either masculine or feminine. While it’s always better to study French vocabulary with the right gender, some endings are specific to masculine or feminine, with a couple of exceptions. In this article, we are looking at French feminine nouns ending in OIRE. Don’t forget to use the audio to get the pronunciation right and to download your free PDF at the bottom of the page.
Une armoire | a cabinet
Une baignoire | a bathtub
Une balançoire | a swing
Une bouilloire | a kettle
La Côte d’Ivoire | Ivory Coast
La foire | the fair
La gloire | glory
L’histoire | history
Une mâchoire | a jaw
Une mangeoire | a feeding trough
La mémoire | memory
Une passoire | a strainer
La patinoire | the ice rink
Une poire | a pear
Une trajectoire | a trajectory
Une victoire | a victory
Exceptions
Un interrogatoire | an interrogation
Un laboratoire | a laboratory
Un pourboire | a tip
Un répertoire | contacts
There you have it! French feminine nouns ending in OIRE.
Remember that while this helps, you should always study French vocabulary with its gender.
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Bonjour, Dylane!
It looks like audio file embedded for this lesson and some other lessons aren’t in-sync. Here are the other lessons I came across.
– https://theperfectfrench.com/vocabulary/french-feminine-nouns-ending-in-ance/
– https://theperfectfrench.com/vocabulary/french-feminine-nouns-ending-in-elle/
Also, the newsletter mentions it’s a 25-page Feminine Nouns PDF, but I see only 16 pages.
By the way, you are a wonderful teacher, and I can’t thank you enough for all your great efforts to teach French in a simple and easy way 🙂
Merci!
Thank you, I will fix the audio in the next few days. The feminine nouns PDF is 16 pages (I just checked and the newsletter is correct), the PDF for the masculine nouns is 25 pages 🙂