Feminine gender

Feminine is a grammatical gender that occurs in all languages that have the grammatical category. It applies usually to animate objects of the female gender, but it is often used used with inanimate, and in some cases animates of the male gender.

For example, in Spanish, the words mesa (table) and persona (person) are feminine and epicene (can be used for both genders) the feminine natural gender is not used unlike words like madrina (godmother). Some nouns in Italian are feminine and inanimate like tovaglia (tablecloth), and others are feminine and animate like donna (woman).

Feminine Gender Media

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  Spanish nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and determiners have two genders: masculine and feminine, represented here by the nouns gatocode: es is deprecated and gatacode: es is deprecated .

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  In the French language, countries can have masculine (green) or feminine (purple) names. Except for certain islands and Mexique, Mozambique, Cambodge and Zimbabwe, the gender depends on whether the country name ends in -e.

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  In the Polish language, countries can have masculine (blue), feminine (red) or neuter (yellow) names. Countries with plural non-masculine names are green. There are no country names in Polish with plural masculine personal gender.

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  Gender in European languages:*Light blue: no gender system.Yellow: common/neuter.Red: masculine/feminine.Green: animate/inanimate.Dark blue: masculine/feminine/neuter. Standard Dutch has a three-gender structure, which fell in disuse in the North of the Netherlands but remains very much alive in Flanders and the South of the Netherlands.

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  Statistical data on the Spanish nouns and names ending in a