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More on Gender

Learn the rules for determining the gender of Spanish nouns. Discover how certain word endings indicate feminine or masculine nouns, including cognates and exceptions. Perfect for Spanish language learners.

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More on Gender

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  1. More on Gender

  2. Always Feminine • In Spanish: Any word which ends in ión(siónorción) isalwaysfeminine: • La situación, La lección , La televisión, La nación. • These are usuallycognates. However, Spanish uses “ción” instead of “tion”. • Whenthese are made plural theaccentisdropped: Las naciones

  3. Nounswhichend in –tadand –dad are alsoalwaysfeminine • La ciudad, la universidad, la realidad, la libertad. • These are alsocognateswhichcorrespondtoEnglishwordsending in “-ity” (exceptions: christianity and homosexuality)

  4. Always masculine • Words of Greek origin that end in –ma are masculine (exception: La rima). • El programa, el problema, el sistema, el tema, el idioma, el clima, el poema. • Most of these are cognates, though some only vaguely (el clima=climate, el tema= theme)

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