Module 3 of the free French course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 21 of 30: Clothes carry gender like everything else: le pantalon but la robe. 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 21.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| les vêtementsplural | the clothes | lay veht-MAH(n) |
| le pantalon | the pants | luh pah(n)-tah-LOH(n) |
| la robe | the dress | lah ROHB |
| la chemise | the shirt | lah shuh-MEEZ |
| la jupe | the skirt | lah ZHEWP |
| le pull | the sweater | luh PEWL |
| les chaussuresplural | the shoes | lay shoh-SEWR |
| le tee-shirt | the t-shirt | luh tee-SHUHRT |
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.
Clothes carry gender like everything else: le pantalon but la robe. Les chaussures (shoes) live in the plural.
Two column-headers for your notebook, and this list to sort under them.
le pantalon is singular for one pair of pants; les chaussures is plural for one pair of shoes. The two languages count them differently.
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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