Feminine gender

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

For example, in Spanish language the words mesa (table) and persona (person) are feminine and epicene, because they don't have a feminine natural gender such as the word madrina (godmother). Some words are feminine and inanimate, such as in Italian tovaglia (tablecloth) while donna (woman) is animate.

Feminine Gender Media

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  The grammatical gender of a noun affects the form of other words related to it. For example, in Spanish, determiners, adjectives, and pronouns change their form depending on the noun to which they refer. Spanish nouns have two genders: masculine and feminine, represented here by the nouns gato and gata, respectively.

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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