Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Learn French: Goal One - words that end in -isme are masculine

  • le catéchisme- catechism
  • le héröisme - heroism
  • le naturisme - naturism
  • le prisme - prism
  • l'égöisme - egoism
In making up this word list, I just tried thinking of English words that end in "-ism". I thought of one English word that did not have a French twin in my dictionary: relativism. I wonder if there is really no similar French word, or if my dictionary is simply lacking.

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