"Une personne mange une pomme."
Translation:A person eats an apple.
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There are some indications, but of course no generalization is perfect. The best way to know if a noun is masculine or feminine is, as Sitesurf says below, to learn it when you learn the word. Just memorize the gender.
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You have to accustom your ears and your mouth to sense the difference. therefore, I suggest you go to Google/Translate, type "un pain, une pomme" on the French side, then click on the small loudspeaker, listen, repeat, listen, repeat, listen, repeat...... again, again, until you hear the difference and pronounce it correctly (hearing your own voice).
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I put "A person eating an apple" - no 's and I got it wrong. I don't understand that. We wouldn't say "a persons eating an apple" but "people are eating an apple". Why is my translation wrong?
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When the sentence is negative, so "Nobody eats an apple" would begin "Personne ne mange" (no article) rather than "Une personne mange".
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I feel like if I accidentally type "and apple" it should be correctly recognized as a typo...