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Feature gen

Adjectives accord their gender with the gender of the noun which they specify. Nevertheless, we don't consider that the feature gen applies to cardinals used as adjectives. For a range of adjectives, the opposite of the values masculine and feminine is not marked:

  1. The masculine and feminine forms are homographs:

  2. The masculine singular form and the masculine plural form are homographs:

    • un homme soucieux /pos=a& gen=m & num=sg  
    • des hommes soucieux /pos=a& gen=m & num=pl  




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