• @grue
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      2 years ago

      J’adore [la] lampe.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Lamps aren’t female in French, they’re feminine but this is purely grammatical and doesn’t imply any social gender. It’s just part of the word - see “fleuve” and “rivière”, both words meaning river, one masculine one feminine.