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| − | + | This is a short list of rules for determining noun gender in Spanish. It will work 99% of the time. | |
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| − | + | * ''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 | |
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| − | + | See [[w:Spanish_nouns#Determining_gender_from_endings|Wikipedia's discussion of this]]. | |
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| − | + | 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 | |
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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
- Nouns (from Greek?) ending in -pa, -ta, -ma are masculine
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
