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Les métiers | Jobs in French

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Jobs in French

Level : Beginner – Elementary

As you might already know, gender in French grammar is a must. A beginner should know that nouns, adjectives, and even past participles will change according to the gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). 

Today, I would like us to work on how to say different jobs in French, and most of all, how to transform them into their feminine form. 

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Jobs in French – In a nutshell

As mentioned above, nouns in French have a gender. A noun can be masculine or feminine. However, the “default” form of nouns is the masculine form. This means that most of the time, the masculine form of a noun, adjective or past participle will be the “base” of the changes made after. 

As an example: 

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Grand

Grande

Petit

Petite

Gros

Grosse

Gentil

Gentille

As you can see, most of the time, the feminine form is simply the masculine form with an extra letters (mostly an “e”) at the end. But that’s not the case for ALL of the nouns and adjectives…

Jobs in French

Regarding jobs in French (which are nouns), we will have different categories, those that end in (masculine form)
-EUR, -ER, -IEN, -TEUR, and more.  

-EUR / -EUSE

 The first category of jobs in French that we are going to cover : nouns ending in -EUR in their masculine form. These ones will have their feminine form end in -EUSE. 

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Coiffeur

Coiffeuse

Chanteur

Chanteuse

Serveur

Serveuse

-IEN / -IENNE

The next category : nouns ending in -IEN. The feminine form will end in -IENNE.

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Pharmacien

Pharmacienne

Musicien

Musicienne

Technicien

Technicienne

Chirurgien

Chirurgienne

-ER / -ÈRE

Some nouns ending in -ER will have their feminine form end in -ÈRE.

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Infirmier

Infirmière

Boulanger

Boulangère

Cuisinier

Cuisinière

Boucher

Bouchère

Caissier

Caissière

Policier

Policière

-TEUR / -TRICE

Some nouns of jobs in French that will end in -TEUR (and not just -EUR), will have their feminine form end in -TRICE.

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Acteur

Actrice

Agriculteur

Agricultrice

Directeur

Directrice

Instituteur

Institutrice

Facteur

Factrice

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+E

Some nouns of jobs will simply add an extra -E to the masculine form to make it feminine.

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Avocat

Avocate

Professeur

Professeure

Auteur

Auteure*

* It is possible to use “AUTEUR” for the feminine form as well.

Masculine = Feminine 

Other masculine jobs in French will have the exact same spelling for the feminine form. This is usually because the masculine form already ends with the letter “E”.

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Dentiste

Dentiste

Journaliste

Journaliste

Architecte

Architecte

Fleuriste

Fleuriste

Other Jobs in French

And lastly, some nouns of jobs will have different spellings and don’t really follow any rule.

MASCULIN

FÉMININ

Médecin

Docteur

Médecin

Doctoresse

Docteure

(Un) Sage-femme

Maïeuticien

(Midwife)

(Une) Sage-femme

Maïeuticienne

(Midwife)

Steward

Hôtesse de l’air

Pompier

Pompier

Pompière

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