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  2. French honorifics - Wikipedia

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    French honorifics are based on the wide use of Madame for women and Monsieur for men. Social. Monsieur" (M.) ...

  3. Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

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    A few times, the female form derives and is employed for both sexes, like in "male nurse" and "male midwife" across several languages. [5] And in a few cases, the male form is derived from the female, as in words for "widow/widower" and "whore/manwhore". However, this solution does not make the noun gender neutral as the noun is still ...

  4. French personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    French has a T-V distinction in the second person singular. That is, it uses two different sets of pronouns: tu and vous and their various forms. The usage of tu and vous depends on the kind of relationship (formal or informal) that exists between the speaker and the person with whom they are speaking and the age differences between these subjects. [1]

  5. French women earn the right to ditch male job titles - AOL

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    One French feminist explains: "Being linguistically recognised as actually present in this world is very important." Academie Francaise allows female job titles in rare compromise on French ...

  6. Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person ...

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    In modern Japanese, kare (彼) is the male and kanojo (彼女) the female third-person pronouns. Historically, kare was a word in the demonstrative paradigm (i.e., a system involving demonstrative prefixes, ko- , so- , a- (historical: ka- ), and do- ), used to point to an object that is physically far but psychologically near.

  7. Gender neutrality in genderless languages - Wikipedia

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    To specify the gender of the doctor, the speaker can add the morpheme for "male" or "female" to the front of it. Thus, to specify a male doctor, one would prefix nán 男 (male), as in nányīshēng (男醫生/男医生); to specify a female doctor, one would prefix nǚ 女 (female), as in nǚyīshēng (女醫生/女医生).

  8. Michelle (name) - Wikipedia

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    The usual French feminine form of the name was Micheline. The name Michelle was rare until the 20th century. The name Michelle was rare until the 20th century. It became a popular name in France and later throughout the Anglosphere after 1930, popularized by French-born film actress Michèle Morgan , who was born Simone Roussel.

  9. Masculine and feminine endings - Wikipedia

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    The terms masculine ending and feminine ending are not based on any cultural concept of masculinity or femininity.Rather, they originate from a grammatical pattern of French, in which words of feminine grammatical gender typically end in a stressless syllable and words of masculine gender end in a stressed syllable. [2]