Difference between revisions of "Gender of nouns in Spanish"
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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 | 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 19:07, 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
