What determines masculinity or feminity in Spanish?
Is it applied to all nouns or verbs or adjectives or what? I realize that most words, but not all, feminine/masculine words end in a/o and those that don’t follow normalcy have to be memorized, but I am confused as to what it is that makes it normally feminine or masculine. All nouns in Spanish are either masculine or feminine. People who grow up speaking Spanish learn the gender of all words as part of learning to speak. As a matter of fact, Spanish speakers probably think it’s weird that English nouns don’t have gender. Each noun has an article that goes with it. You’ve got to memorize the article when you memorize the word. That noun isn’t going anywhere without the article. They’re like bff. Like our friend Fabio has noticed, the gender of nouns doesn’t have much to do with the meaning of the noun itself. Even though a dress is usually worn by female, it’s a masculine noun in Spanish. Along the same lines, there’s nothing particularly girly about an apple, or anything particularly
