Difference between revisions of "Gender of nouns in Spanish"

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* ''Masculine'' if noun ends in '''-o''' or a '''consonant'''
 
* ''Masculine'' if noun ends in '''-o''' or a '''consonant'''
 
** Nouns ending in the morhpemes '''-ción''' and '''-dad''' are ''feminine''
 
** Nouns ending in the morhpemes '''-ción''' and '''-dad''' are ''feminine''
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** '''mano''' is feminine
 
* ''Feminine'' if noun ends in '''-a'''
 
* ''Feminine'' if noun ends in '''-a'''
** Nouns ending in '''-pa''', '''-ta''', '''-ma''' are ''masculine''
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** Nouns (from Greek?) ending in '''-pa''', '''-ta''', '''-ma''' are ''masculine''
 
*** '''rima''' is feminine
 
*** '''rima''' is feminine
  
  
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_grammar#Determining_gender_from_endings Wikipedia's discussion of this].
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See [[w:Spanish_nouns#Determining_gender_from_endings|Wikipedia's discussion of this]].
  
  
 
There are some interesting discrepencies in the gender of nouns across Romance languages.  A collection of those is being kept track of on the [[Faux Genders]] page
 
There are some interesting discrepencies in the gender of nouns across Romance languages.  A collection of those is being kept track of on the [[Faux Genders]] page

Latest revision as of 20:07, 26 June 2007

This is a short list of rules for determining noun gender in Spanish. It will work 99% of the time.

  • Masculine if noun ends in -o or a consonant
    • Nouns ending in the morhpemes -ción and -dad are feminine
    • mano is feminine
  • Feminine if noun ends in -a
    • Nouns (from Greek?) ending in -pa, -ta, -ma are masculine
      • rima is feminine


See Wikipedia's discussion of this.


There are some interesting discrepencies in the gender of nouns across Romance languages. A collection of those is being kept track of on the Faux Genders page