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The differences between feminine and masculine
Hai, i want to ask what is the difference between the word when it is use in feminine and masculine?
Every word in Spanish has masculine and feminie. What does it represent? Is it like noun and verb? Or is it like singular and plural? |
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Many languages group nouns into two or more grammatical categories that are often called "genders". As a grammatical term, "gender" means "type", "kind" or "category". Usually these languages require some type of gender agreement between nouns and their associated articles and pronouns, and sometimes with associated adjectives.
The number of genders and their usual names are arbitrary. For example, Swedish has 2 genders called "common" and "neuter", German has 3 genders called "masculine", "feminine" and "neuter", and Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian have 2 genders called "masculine" and "feminine". The assignment of gender to a noun is arbitrary. In Spanish the nouns that name male living things often have masculine gender, and the nouns that name female living things often have feminine gender; this is true for most nouns that name people and well-known domesticated animals. All other nouns also have grammatical gender, and you must learn the gender for each noun individually. There are some general rules for identifying the gender of a noun either by form (usually the ending of the noun) or by meaning, but almost all of these rules have at least a few exceptions. |
Great answer, wrholt.. :thumbsup:
:applause::applause: ;) |
Thank you so much for the clarification =)
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And I was ready to explain about the bees and the flowers... :rolleyes: :wicked::showoff:
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león - leona elefante - elefanta oso - osa lobo - loba leopardo - pantera etc. I wouldn't say they are domesticated animals. :D :twocents: :) |
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Al menos eso es lo que siempre me enseñaron a mí. Si estoy equivocada, te pido disculpas.. :rolleyes: Otro caso en el cual el nombre del animal es femenino, es la jirafa, así sea un macho bien machote..:D La serpiente o culebra sería otro ejemplo y hay muchos más. ;):) |
Sin disculpas ;), pueden ser opiniones. Yo lo tengo entendido así: el leopardo es el macho y la pantera es la hembra, aunque puede que esté equivocada o simplemente que sea un tipo de nomenclatura para distinguir un sexo de otro en ambientes no específicos. De hecho, tanto el nombre científico de la pantera como del leopardo es Panthera pardus. En general se designa a la Panthera onca como "pantera negra", pero en realidad es un jaguar melánico. Aún así, el término "pantera" engloba otros felinos. También creo que en América designáis con el nombre de pantera a otro félido, pero ahora mismo no recuerdo cuál es. :)
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Nosotros generalmente cuando decimos "pantera" nos referimos a la "pantera negra" que es también de la misma familia, solo que de otro color.. :p "Panthera" designa no solo al leopardo sino a los demás felinos como el león, el tigre y el jaguar, éste último de origen americano. Me acuerdo que en el zoológico de mi ciudad, en la jaula decía "Jaguar o tigre americano". No sé si sea éste al que te refieras.. ;) |
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