Category:French nouns

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French terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.

For more information, see Appendix:French nouns.

• Category:French noun forms: French nouns that are inflected to display grammatical relations other than the main form.
• Category:French agent nouns: French nouns that denote an agent that performs the action denoted by the verb from which the noun is derived.
• Category:French collective nouns: French nouns that indicate groups of related things or beings, without the need of grammatical pluralization.
• Category:French compound nouns: French nouns composed of two or more stems.
• Category:French countable nouns: French nouns that can be quantified directly by numerals.
• Category:French diminutive nouns: French nouns that are derived from a base word to convey endearment, small size or small intensity.
• Category:French nouns by gender: French nouns organized by the gender they belong to.
• Category:French nouns by inflection type: French nouns organized by the type of inflection they follow.
• Category:French nominalized adjectives: French adjectives that are used as nouns.
• Category:French nouns with other-gender equivalents: French nouns that refer to gendered concepts (e.g. actor vs. actress, king vs. queen) and have corresponding other-gender equivalent terms.
• Category:French pluralia tantum: French nouns that are mostly or exclusively used in the plural form.
• Category:French proper nouns: French nouns that indicate individual entities, such as names of persons, places or organizations.
• Category:French singularia tantum: French nouns that are mostly or exclusively used in the singular form.
• Category:French nouns with unattested plurals: French nouns with unattested plurals.
• Category:French uncountable nouns: French nouns that indicate qualities, ideas, unbounded mass or other abstract concepts that cannot be quantified directly by numerals.
• Category:French verbal nouns: French nouns morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning.