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Similarly, in French, “le cation”. But I still think it’d be fine to teach beginners that nouns ending in -tion are “always” feminine.
by umanwizard 7y ago
Similarly, in French, “le cation”.
But I still think it’d be fine to teach beginners that nouns ending in -tion are “always” feminine.
- tom_mellior 7y agoGood example for French, I wasn't aware of that one. I know that "image" is supposedly the only -age word in French that is not masculine. (Which BTW is confusing for French learners from German, since German adopted a bunch of French -age words, but as feminine words like die Garage.) Anyway, just above the example in question, the authors manage to point to a rule that "usually" (their emphasis) holds, so they could just have written "usually" here as well. They could also have pointed out that the suffixes they list have the effect they state when added to a root that is a word in its own right: Bäcker-Bäckerei, heiter-Heiterkeit, Land-Landschaft etc. though admittedly this might add too much complexity this early on.