![]() How to Memorize the Gender of Italian Nouns Ho trovato la tu a lezion e (f.) molto utile.ģ.It’s hard work at the beginning, but soon you’ll get the hang of it. Don’t worry, there are a few Italian language gender rules, but you’ll just need to memorize the words that don’t fit these rules. That sounds pretty straightforward, but things get a bit more complicated because there are a bunch of words ending in -e that could be either gender. Quest o libr o (m) ha un a bell a copertin a (f). ![]() The easiest clue is to check the ending of the word as, generally, words ending in -o (plural ending in -i) are masculine while words ending in -a (plural ending in -e) are feminine. How to Make a Good Guess on the Gender of a Wordīesides looking up the gender in the Italian dictionary, there are basic gender rules in Italian to follow to understand if a word is feminine or masculine. If there’s no feminine equivalent, you should add donna (“woman” ) after the name of the profession to solve any ambiguity: un ingegnere donna (“a woman engineer” ).Ģ. For example, un rinoceronte femmina (“a female rhinoceros” ). If you want to make a word feminine, you’ll have to add femmina or maschio (“female” or “male” ) next to it. Other wild animals have an assigned gender in the Italian language (by whom, I ask myself…?),such as una tigre (“a tiger,” f.) and un rinoceronte (“a rhinoceros,” m.). Some words, such as the names of animals, have feminine/masculine equivalents that sometimes have a different form, like mucca/toro (“cow/bull” ) or gallina/gallo (“hen/rooster” ). The best way to do this is to practice repeating the noun together with the right article the article always shows you clearly what the gender of the word is. This might sound a bit strange, but in Italian, objects such as chairs ( la sedia, f.) and tables ( il tavolo, m.), animals such as lions ( il leone, m.) and tigers ( la tigre, f.), feelings such as doubt ( il dubbio, m.) and happiness ( la felicità, f.) have a m/f gender, and you need to memorize which word is what gender. This means that there is no neutral gender. In Italian, there are two gender categories: Femminile (“Feminine” ) and Maschile (“Masculine” ). ![]() Equivalentsįemminile o Maschile? (Feminine or Masculine?)
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