Job titles differ depending on whether you're a man or a woman (nouns)

Grace and Tom are a mixed gender group, whereas Grace and Anna are a pure female group. Vous êtes vendeuses is the female form and hence leaves no room for Tom.

-- Chris (not a native speaker).

Hi Tristan.

Les deux sont permis, techniquement parlant, un médecin est docteur en médecine.

Bonne continuation!

 

 

Hi Vernon,

The correct way to talk about women in the jobs that traditionally were the realm of men has changed over the years but now the emphasis is on the job and not the fact that they are female.

There is much polemic about the correct way to describe them but you cannot say 'la médecin', you will use 'la doctoresse' or if you talk about your female doctor, or pilot, or engineer, you will simply say 'mon médecin', 'mon pilote' , 'mon ingénieur' , regardless of their sex.

In the case of teachers, it will be 'la professeur', (or 'la prof' ) and not 'un professeur femme'.

Hope this helps!

'médecin' is masculine so 'femme' is added to qualify the gender if it's a woman but it doesn't change the noun. (If there were such a thing as 'une médecin' there'd be no need to add 'femme'.)

Bonjour Anh!

Because here "femme" is not an adjective, but a noun - "a woman doctor" - so it's "médecin" which acts like a qualifier here and therefore is placed after "femme".

I hope that's helpful!

Bonne journée !

Bonjour David,

Not at all, quite the contrary. French is moving toward creating feminine forms for nouns that are currently masculine only, such as un pompier, which now has a feminine counterpart une pompière. There's some debate about whether this is necessary / desirable, but it's certainly not going obsolete.

Hi Scott - the answer is male. Where did you see otherwise? Best wishes.

If the profession in French ends in -eur, it is typically masculine, contrary to that if it ends in -euse then it is feminine. Also some feminine professions end in -e while the male counterpart do not, i.e. avocate, avocat. Otherwise it is a matter of learning them. Boulanger, Boulangère. Which is male and which is the female baker?
J'espère que cela vous aiderez.
Ron

Yes, it's correct: see https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/dont-use-indefinite-articles-with-professions

Lisa est une très bonne vendeuse.
In French, you always need an article in front of a group including an adjective, and that rule applies to professions:
Paul est un professeur extraordinaire.
Otherwise: Paul est professeur. (note: no adjective, hence no article)

Oui, tout à fait.

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