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Is contre in french masculine

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It depends whether you're using it alone or not. "Un contre" literally means "a counter" (like when a player charges down a kick in Rugby, for instance), and in this case it is masculine. If part of a two-piece word, such as "un contre-argument" or "une contre-offensive", it assumes the gender of the word it is linked to ("argument" and "offensive" in my examples, which are masculine and feminine respectively).

It can also mean "against", though (for instance "je suis contre le racisme"), and in this case gender won't matter to you because it won't affect how the word is spelled or used.

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14y ago

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