¿"lección" es masculino o femenino?

Question

¿"lección" es masculino o femenino?

• You can find the gender to any noun by looking it up in our dictionary. You will see under the word "femenine noun" or "masculine noun" - Paralee Sep 3, 2009

Answer 1

Hi suang, almost all words ending in "ión" are feminine. I wonder is there is an exception.

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I wonder is there is an exception.

Caión, avión, embrión, bastión, anión and catión are the most common masculine ones. On top of that, many suffixed words with -on, such as familión, roción, bestión..., mostly rather unusual.

Answer 2

If I'm reading a sentence it would be obvious but if I'm the one writing, how do I determine the gender of these words without consulting the dictionary?

• You can't. There are certain endings, such as -o or -ión that have the same gender nearly all the time, but for other endings, it is rather unpredictable. - lazarus1907 Sep 3, 2009
• Thanks, I figured if anyone could answer that question it would be you. This is a confusing language much like French. - Yeser007 Sep 3, 2009

Answer 3

Hi suang, almost all words ending in "ión" are feminine. I wonder is there is an exception.

Answer 4

Lección es feminino. The common masculine endings are -l, -o, -n, and -r; -a, -d, -ción, and -sión are usually feminine. Of course there are always exceptions, but if you look up a word in your dictionary/on here, it will tell you whether it's masculine or feminine.