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12 years of french in school but never figured it out

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I’m native French and for the life of me I cannot articulate any rule in relation to why some nouns are masculine and others feminine. It looks completely arbitrary and I’ve just unquestioningly learned the gender of every word alongside the vocabulary itself.

There are even words where to this day I’m not sure I get it right (like “icône” which I use in the feminine)

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Un bastion
Un camion
Un cation
Un champion
Un ion
Un lampion
Un lion
Un pion
Un onion
…

not french but I learned at least one gender rule - that I'm sure there must be some exceptions of.

everything ending in "ion" ..like say ..'revolution' ..is feminine

That’s another nonsensical aspect of the language.

Interestingly, other variants of French (like that spoken in Belgium) makes more sense they’d call it “nonante neuf” (as in ninety [plus] nine).

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Pee pee, I loved snails though and deluze.

Actually arabic too have possess this attribute. A word can only be either male or female, nothing like 'it' in the language.