>>>>Au contraire, mon ami - very hot!
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>>>If you keep calling Bonnie a man, you'll likely get e-slapped!
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>>LOL!! Thanks for sticking up for me, Al!
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>>Dragan, add an "e" to the end of that for the feminine version: mon amie
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>>~~Bonnie
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>If I remember my schoolboy French properly, this is an interesting case. An "amie" is feminine, so "normally" one would say "ma amie". But, French avoids certain awkward pronunciations, so you get the male possessive.
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>Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other examples... can you?

It's the same in English- the indefinite article a becomes an before a word starting with a vowel.

For u it depends how it is pronounced - I think

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