French Gender Quiz for Beginner to Advanced Learners

When you’re able to effortlessly use French nouns in the correct gender, you’ll sound so much more fluent and natural. Quizzes are an excellent way to practice these language skills and put your memory to the test.

Check out the following French gender quizzes for beginners to advanced learners. You’ll also find some resources and memorization tricks for mastering French gender.

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French Gender Quiz for Beginners

For those just learning the basics and gaining exposure to common vocabulary words, this is the quiz for you! It covers everything from food and house words to colors and school subjects.

Just choose the right definite article and gender of the noun. You can refresh the page if you want to retake the quiz or start over again. 

Intermediate French Gender Quiz

Have you been learning French for a while now? Do you have a decent-sized vocabulary?

If so, then this is the perfect quiz for you. It includes geography nouns, emotion words, a few words beginning in vowels and more.

Advanced French Gender Quiz

While the vocabulary itself might not be super difficult, knowing whether the following words are masculine or feminine is a true challenge.

With most of the words beginning in vowels, it’s likely that you’ve rarely ever used them with anything but l’, making it harder to remember their gender.

Plus, I’ve thrown in a pair of words whose meanings change depending on gender, so be sure to pay special attention to the definitions! This is just one of the many reasons why learning the correct gender is so important.

Additional French Gender Quizzes

If you’re looking for more French gender quizzes, there are plenty of places online that have some great ones.

• Sporcle, a quiz site, has two great tests you can take. One is Can You Name the Gender? with 64 questions. The other is Can You Name the Gender of These Nouns? with 39 questions.
• Quizlet has a flashcard-style quiz focused on common masculine and feminine noun endings. As a bonus, all endings are accompanied by audio to help you learn the correct pronunciations.
• LanguageGuide.Org, a language learning website, has 13 different “Trial By Fire” gender quizzes in their grammar section.
• ProProfs, an online quiz maker, has a short, 10-question quiz on French gender.

Another place to learn French gender and vocabulary is FluentU. You’ll learn in context by watching video clips from French media, then take vocabulary quizzes to test your understanding of the key words and phrases from the clips. 

How to Prepare for a French Gender Quiz

Before you test your language skills, you should make sure you understand all the ins and outs of French gender.

Contrary to what it seems, there’s a method to all the French gender madness. There are even patterns that’ll help you crack the code rather than relying on rote memorization.

First off, take a look at this thorough primer on French gender, which breaks down the concept in a way that’s easy to understand:

Next, download this free French noun gender list, which contains common masculine and feminine noun endings as well as vocabulary lists broken down by subject.

For some quick preliminary practice, try your hand at these fill-in-the-blank exercises from Tex’s French Grammar, the University of Texas’ French learning website. The exercises are preceded by a lesson on gender that includes plenty of example sentences, their English definitions and audio files.

So, how did you do?

Hopefully, you scored close to where you’d like to and if not, just remember the old adage that practice makes perfect!

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And one more thing...

If you like learning French on your own time and from the comfort of your smart device, then I'd be remiss to not tell you about FluentU.

FluentU has a wide variety of great content, like interviews, documentary excerpts and web series, as you can see here:

FluentU brings native French videos with reach. With interactive captions, you can tap on any word to see an image, definition and useful examples.

For example, if you tap on the word "crois," you'll see this:

Practice and reinforce all the vocabulary you've learned in a given video with learn mode. Swipe left or right to see more examples for the word you’re learning, and play the mini-games found in our dynamic flashcards, like "fill in the blank."

All throughout, FluentU tracks the vocabulary that you’re learning and uses this information to give you a totally personalized experience. It gives you extra practice with difficult words—and reminds you when it’s time to review what you’ve learned.

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