EXPRESSION OF NOUNS’ GENDER CATEGORY IN FRENCH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES

Objective of the article is to determine the similarity and difference in the expression of nouns’ gender category in the French and Russian languages, to indicate the way and rules of revealing gender category based on lexical, grammatical and comparative analyses. Applied methods : Lexical, grammatical and comparative analyses, which allow determining the peculiarity of the expression of nouns’ gender category in the French and Russian languages; to consider the techniques of the formation of nouns’ feminine gender in the French language, the formation of nouns’ masculine, feminine, neuter genders in the Russian language. Results . The similarity of the expression of nouns’ gender category is revealed by manifesting the word-formation suffixes, substantial adjectives and participles, words of different basis, sequence of mutual gender words; and the differences revealing the absence of neuter and common genders in the French language, the presence of homonyms where gender determines the nouns’ meaning. Conclusion . The article deals with the expression of nouns’ gender category, the formation of nouns’ feminine gender in the French language, the formation of nouns’ masculine, feminine, neuter genders in the Russian language, the affix word-formation. The problem of vocabulary’s feminization in the French language is also considered. The list of homonyms is given too where gender determines the nouns’ meaning. The study of the nouns’ gender category is emphasized as actual.