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MSeries
Shouldn't it be sportif and not sportive ?
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04 April, 2008, 09:59:19 pm »
and sportifs
as in Le Coq Sportif
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Wowbagger
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Re: Shouldn't it be sportif and not sportive ?
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04 April, 2008, 10:02:02 pm »
But a coq is not usually feminine.
(Health warning: that's a wild guess and I'd wait for one of those clever Francophile like Frenchie or Nutty to come along and confirm it).
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Mike J
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Re: Shouldn't it be sportif and not sportive ?
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04 April, 2008, 10:27:16 pm »
Quote from: wowbagger on 04 April, 2008, 10:02:02 pm
But a coq is not usually feminine.
Le is masculine and la is feminine.
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border-rider
Re: Shouldn't it be sportif and not sportive ?
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04 April, 2008, 10:31:14 pm »
Mmm. Sportif/ive is an adjective so it can be either depending on the gender of the noun it applies to
l'homme sportif
la femme sportive
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Wowbagger
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04 April, 2008, 10:32:12 pm »
Mais oui, but les adjectifs ont les endings différents dependant on whether ils sont masculine ou féminine.
Le grand vélo mais la grand
e
bicyclette.
N'est-ce pas?
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MSeries
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05 April, 2008, 09:19:41 am »
Wikiepedia reckons cyclosportive is short for randonee cyclosportive which is feminine. It was always sportif in the early days before they became popular.
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nickwill
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05 April, 2008, 12:26:24 pm »
I might be totally wrong here, but I always thought that the term sportive applied to the event, and sportif to the participant.
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Martin
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05 April, 2008, 12:47:07 pm »
the event itself would be called une epreuve, therefore the adjective is sportive.
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Frenchie
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08 April, 2008, 06:47:26 pm »
Une etape ou epreuve
sportive
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Both feminine.
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