Is "slide" masculine or feminine?

In French, the names of technological objects, such as “PowerPoint slide”, are generally considered to be masculine. This means that the articles and the adjectives that accompany them are also masculine. For example, you would say “un PowerPoint slide”, “un PowerPoint slideshow”, “un PowerPoint software”. (where "un is the masculine word).

However, it is important to note that the grammatical gender of a word does not depend on its meaning or nature, but rather on how it is used in the language. In French, the grammatical gender of a word is determined by its ending; for example, words that end in -age are generally masculine, while words that end in -tion are generally feminine. However, there are exceptions to these rules and it is sometimes difficult to predict the gender of a word without knowing it.

In summary, we can say that “PowerPoint slide” is masculine in French.

In practice, we hear both from our customers, and we think that the feminine gender is perhaps similar to its feminine translation: “a PowerPoint slide”.

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Rest assured, our Presentation design agency accepts any type of slides.

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