Thank you for that most essential point! They are both masculine, too.
The verb for fishing is

pêcher (peh-sheh) v.i. : to fish

Be sure and use the correct accent over the "e" because there is another word

pécher v.i.: to sin!

la pêche (pehsh), noun = fishing

le péché (peh-sheh), noun = sin

le pêcheur (peh-shuhr) = fisherman la pêcheuse (pehsh-eu:z) = fisherwoman

le pécheur (peh-shuhr) = sinner la pécheresse (peh-shress)= sinner (feminine)

Remember the accent for fishing points straight up (ê) toward heaven
but the accent for sin points downward AND to the left (é) toward the past.

Agneau de Dieu qui enlèves le péché ... "The lamb of God who removes sin..."

This looks good, dab... The slight differences can make a HUGE difference in communication!

There is a slight heavier "ay" sound to the "sin" one, as it has the accent aigu. That's how you can tell (besides the context) in spoken word.

Can be confusing!

Thanks. I imagine the closeness of those two words results in some interesting jokes, esp./even from pulpits.

Garder (ghar-deh), verb

1. to keep, to guard, protect, to watch over

“Que les anges te gardent!” May angels watch over you!
“Gardez la foi” Keep faith!

2. to keep, to retain; to preserve, save

“Garderai la chemise.” I will keep the shirt.
“Gardez une poire pour la soif” Save something for a rainy day. (literally “Save a pear for the craving.”)
“Garder son sang froid” To remain calm. (literally “to keep one’s cold blood”

devenir (duh-vuh-neer) verb

to become
to grow into

“Qu’est-il devenu?”
What has become of him?

“On ne naît pas femme: on le deviant.” –Simone De Beauvoir
No one is born a woman: one becomes one.

“On finiait par devenir fou, ou par mourir, si on ne pouvait pas pleurer.” – Guy de Maupassant
“One would end up going mad, or dying, if one could not cry.”

Note how the above question says literally, What IS become of him? That is because devenir is one of those verbs that is conjugated with être (to be), not avoir (to have).

There are a few of these verbs, 16 in all I think, that are conjugated in this way. These verbs have to do with movement of some type: descendre (to go down), arriver (to arrive), passer (to pass or pass by), nâitre (to be born) ou mourir (to die), aller or s'en aller(to go) etc.

Can get tricky, but one just gets used to it eventually.

chausse (shoh-ss) (fem.)
hose, breeches
C’est la femme qui porte les chausses (It’s the wife who wears the breeches.)

chaussette (shoh-seht), (fem.)
sock

chausseure (shoh-sewr), (fem.)
footwear, footgear
une paire de chausseures (a pair of boots, of shoes)
“Trouver chaussure à son pied “ (To find one’s match)

chausson, (masc.)
slipper

chausse-pied, (masc.)
shoe-horn

chausser, (shoh-seh), verbe trans.
1. to put on (stockings, shoes)
2. to put shoes on someone
Etre chaussé d’une opinion (to be fixed in an opinion)
Etre bien chaussé (to be well shod)
Cela me chausse (that suits me)

se chausser, verb
to put on one’s shoes, boots


“Les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés.” -proverbe
“Cobblers are always those most poorly shod.

soulier (soo-l’yeh) (m), noun

shoe

« Etre dans ses petits souliers » = « Etre mal a l’aise »
to be in one’s little shoes = to be ill at ease, awkward, uncomfortable, embarrassed

« Chacun sait où le soulier le blesse »
Everyone knows where his own shoe hurts him.

“Faute de souliers on va nu-pieds.” = « Beggars can’t be choosers.”
or more literally, “Without shoes one goes bare-footed.”

"Le chat a reçu un ordre et il l'a transmis à sa queue."
The cat has recieved a command and he has passed it on to his tail.

This proverb is saying people are likely to pass along a duty to someone else - and it may end up not getting done.

Love it!