French help - masculine/feminine?

txhabfan is right; but it's not "ist"; grammar has no concept of "" and you should not confuse "" and "grammatical gender". It just so happens that in French and most other Western European languages the masculine is the "default" gender; in others, for example, Romanian, the "default gender" is feminine in the singular, masculine in the plural. In Gujerati the "default gender" is neuter.