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How do you say these words in french with there male and female signs like le or la l the are dog egg ice jewelry night octopus phone queen righting tree unicorn virtual x-ray yellow zebra?

Here are the French words with their genders:

Masculine (Le):

* Le chien: dog

* L'œuf: egg (pronounced "loof")

* La glace: ice (pronounced "la glass")

* Le bijou: jewelry (pronounced "le bi-zhoo")

* La nuit: night

* La pieuvre: octopus (pronounced "pee-uhr")

* Le téléphone: phone

* Le roi: king

* Le redressement: righting

* L'arbre: tree (pronounced "larb")

* La licorne: unicorn (pronounced "lee-korn")

* Le virtuel: virtual (pronounced "le veer-too-el")

* La radiographie: x-ray (pronounced "ra-dee-o-gra-fee")

* Le jaune: yellow (pronounced "le zhohn")

* Le zèbre: zebra

Feminine (La):

* La reine: queen

Note:

* Some words, like "glace" and "licorne", have a feminine gender in French but their English counterparts are neuter.

* "L'arbre" is an example of a word that starts with a vowel and takes a silent "l" in front of it.

* "Le redressement" is masculine even though it's made up of two words, "redresser" (to right) and "ment" (ment).

* Remember that some nouns are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural.

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