how to know the gender of some things??

Question

As i learned so far in spanish language..they said things have their own gender such as apples..they said apple has a female gender which was called manzanA but book have a male gender called librO..my question is how i want to know what's the gender of some things?? can someone explain and help me...

Answer 1

reference article on gender

Answer 2

Most nouns ending in -o are masculine and most nouns ending in -a are feminine.

In addition, nouns ending in -e, in an accented vowel, in a consonant other than D or Z are usually masculine: el pupitre, el emú, el papel, el rotulador.

Whereas nouns ending in -d, -z, -ión are feminine: la felicidad, la nariz, la canción.

There are exceptions to these rules, so you should always memorize a noun together with its article.

Answer 3

When you look up the word in a dictornary, it will either say (m), (masc) or (masculine) for masculine nouns and (f), (fem) or (feminine) for feminine nouns. Most, but not all nouns that end in -o are masculine, and most, but not all, nouns that end in -a are feminine. However, the only way to know for sure is to memorize the gender along with the noun.