Masculine and Feminine??
hello. could someone tell me what is the difference between Masculine or Feminine words and if it effects the way you write them?????????
1 Answer
There are probably other posts on this site that could give you a good answer, so you might look into those too, but this is a basic summary.
In many other languages, nouns have a grammatical gender. In Spanish, there are two genders: masculine and feminine. The gender is an integral part of a word in Spanish, so you need to make sure you learn the genders of the nouns, because it can affect not only the other words in the sentence, but also the meaning of a word.
One of the most important parts of the grammatical gender of a word is ensuring that the rest of the words are in agreement with it. This means that the articles and the adjectives that are used with the noun need to agree in gender with it. For example, let's take the sentence "The flower is red." This translates to "la flor es roja". Notice two words in particular: "la" and "roja". The word "flor" is feminine, which means that the article (la) and the adjective (roja), must be feminine in order to agree with the noun. In another example, we'll say "The tall man walked". This is "El hombre alto caminó". In this case, the article (el) and the adjective (alto) are masculine in order to agree with the masculine noun "hombre"
