Animal Names: Male, Female, and Young

A feminine ending is when there is an unstressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry, especially one that is an extra syllable added to the pre-established meter. This “hiccup” in the rhythm helps keep the audience’s attention, sometimes emphasizes a rhyme, and is 100% intentional!

-A, -ión, -dad, -tad and -tud are all endings for feminine words. One ending with a final -a, -ista, can be used on words for male or female people, and is both masculine and feminine. Even though these endings can generally help you with the gender of a noun, there are some words that do not follow these rules.

“canción” es femenino* (“canción” is a feminine noun)

Most feminine nouns end in a. Ending in an a indicates that a person or animal is female or that an object, idea, etc. is grammatically feminine.

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Unlike English, French nouns have a gender (genre): they can be masculine (masculin) or feminine (féminin). There are different ways to find out a noun’s gender: we can look in the dictionary and check for the abbreviations m.

Lápiz is gendered masculine in Spansh, so the definite article is el and the indefinite article is un.

For inanimate things or abstract ideas etc., the gender of the noun in these cases is quite arbitrary. The word for pencil “crayon” for example is masculine in French, whereas the word television “télévision” is feminine. This way you will learn that the word pencil should be “le crayon”.

Every noun has a grammatical gender in some languages. If you need some justification. “pizza” is an originally Italian word, and it is feminine in Italian, too.

1 Answer. un lápiz. It’s a masculine noun, so it takes “un”. “An” and “a” are English, so they won’t work as articles for Spanish nouns.

Spanish has definite and indefinite articles as well. However, as mentioned before, Spanish speakers must suit the form of the article to the gender of the noun it precedes….How to Say “The” in Spanish.

6 Answers. Mujeres is feminine, so the plural with the article would be las mujeres. Good job. You didn’t take the easy way out and just figure that a noun that referred to the female sex must be feminine.

Months of the year in Spanish are always masculine. Read and listen to these examples: El mes de febrero es corto. February is a short month.