Is everything in Spanish masculine or feminine?
Is everything in Spanish masculine or feminine?
We know that all people have gender, but in Spanish all nouns have gender. This means that every word for a person, place, thing or idea is either masculine or feminine. This can be confusing, especially when some words, like persona (person), can refer to a person that is man or a woman.
What are feminine words in Spanish?
General rules for feminine nouns
- Generally, words ending in -A: la silla, la manzana, la mesa.
- Ending in -CIÓN, -SIÓN, -ZÓN: la canción, la pasión, la razón (exceptions: el corazón, el buzón)
- Words ending in -DAD and -TAD: la felicidad, la amistad, la verdad.
- Ending in -EZ and -TRIZ: la vejez, la actriz.
Why are there genders in Spanish?
Both Latin and Anglo-Saxon (the ancestors to Spanish and English respectively) had not two, but three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. ... In the case of Spanish, the majority of neutral Latin nouns became masculine. Word genders is not a feature exclusive to languages derived from Proto-Indo-European though.
