Module 2 of the free French course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 22 of 30: Fruit and vegetables carry your genders forward: la banane, la fraise, la carotte, la tomate. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 22.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| le fruit | the fruit | luh FRWEE |
| le légume | the vegetable | luh lay-GEWM |
| la banane | the banana | lah bah-NAHN |
| la fraise | the strawberry | lah FREHZ |
| la carotte | the carrot | lah kah-RUT |
| la tomate | the tomato | lah toh-MAHT |
| l'orangefeminine — the article elides to l' | the orange (fruit) | loh-RAH(n)ZH |
| la salade | the salad | lah sah-LAHD |
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
Fruit and vegetables carry your genders forward: la banane, la fraise, la carotte, la tomate — and le fruit, le légume themselves.
J'aime les fraises mais je n'aime pas les tomates — opinions, negation and food in one honest sentence.
l'orange the fruit is feminine (une orange); orange the color, from Module 1, never changes its spelling. One word, two jobs.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
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