Making 'Covid' a feminine noun in French may have encouraged people to take the virus less seriously and take fewer precautions, according to a study at a Paris-based business school. In the first ...

PARIS (AFP) — Bread is masculine, beer feminine. In French, every noun has a gender, and that includes the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Covid-19 is feminine — to be used with the article ...

Now, the group charged with preserving the French language has spoken. Covid-19, the Académie Française decided, is assuredly feminine, despite its increasingly common usage with the masculine article ...