Can you tell me about feminine and masculine in Spanish?
accually i am not understanding this female male thing very much can u all give me easy so i can see all of yur answers and can completly get it!! 
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Well, if your using a word and it ends with lets say "O", then it would have El (Masculine).
Most of the time, yes. There are less than 10 exceptions.
If it ends with "A", then that would be La (Feminine).
I've got a list of only 794 words ending in -a that are masculine, and 574 words in -a they can be used in masculine. Oops!
Or, if the word ends with a constant, like "Pastel", which means cake, then usually it would be Masculine.
I've got a list of 80 words ending in -l that are feminine, plus another one of 139 words that can be feminine.
Also, I've got a list of 369 words ending in -e which are feminine.
Careful with those rules!
la sobrina masculine form
Well, if your using a word and it ends with lets say "O", then it would have El (Masculine). If it ends with "A", then that would be La (Feminine). Or, if the word ends with a constant, like "Pastel", which means cake, then usually it would be Masculine. Some words like La Mano, which means hand, don't follow the rules.
accually i am not understanding this female male thing
And therein lies the problem.
gender is not a male/female thing. That is sex.
el libro=masculine noun
la escuela =feminine noun
As you can see sex here has nothing to do with the noun's gender.. The noun is masculine or feminine; not male or female.
Male and female refers to the sexual organ of certain animals, and people. We call this sex.
Feminine and masculine (notice their spelling) are grammatical groups that tell you what kind of endings you need to attach to words. In grammatical jargon, we call this gender. English does not have gender, except in a few words, like "his/her/its", and these genders always match their sex, which is why the word "gender" is now used as if it was "sex".
But in other languages, sex and gender are the same only sometimes, so these terms cannot be used as if they were the same thing.
Things have genders, jobs have genders, colours have genders, every noun have an intrinsic gender, and adjectives and articles agree in gender with the nouns. In German, a lady has neutral gender, and a potato feminine gender. The word "person" in Spanish is feminine even when you refer to a man, and "tower" is feminine in Spanish, but masculine in German. The word "moon" is feminine in Spanish, but masculine in German. Get it? There is no pattern, no rule, no logic. Genders must be memorized. Period.
Hi Minhaj, English is sooo difficult to spell. Everyone here on the forum has said this.
So may I give you a hand with your query: you must write "feminine" and "masculine"
Write either one of these words (or both) in the search field to find many threads that talk about this interesting subject.
Let me help you out with one for starters: Gender of nouns This was a link provided in one of those other threads. You can review that link to begin with and then read other threads, too.
