French Word of the Day

un livre = a book
une livre = a pound

Voici un livre qui pèse une livre.
Here’s a book that weighs a pound.

TODAY
We’re having fun with words that have more than one definition that varies according to gender. When the gender changes, so does the meaning!

DISCOVER HOW GENDER MATTERS IN THESE WORDS
Learn how the difference between le and la creates the paired meanings below:

• Click and Clique
• Method and Fashion
• Vase and Mud
• Page (paper) and Page (person)
• Tour and Tour

QUIZ YOURSELF
Take our Gender Matters French Vocabulary Quiz to find out how you fare with words whose meanings change according to gender.