{"id":1916,"date":"2019-04-25T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2019-10-12T21:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T21:21:03","slug":"noun-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conversaspanishinstitute.com\/ru\/onlineactivities\/noun-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Inanimate objects have gender?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who is learning Spanish will agree that it can be particularly confusing when it comes to gender. Why do inanimate things have gender? We all want to know the answer, but sadly, sometimes we are bound to be disappointed. However, if you want to know how grammatical gender works<\/strong> in Spanish, we strongly recommend that you keep reading.<\/p>\n

Noun Gender<\/strong><\/h2>\n

You probably don\u2019t think much about this, but in English, there are some nouns that are male or female. For example, man\/woman, brother\/sister, gentleman\/lady<\/i>, rooster\/hen<\/em>, etc. These, of course, refer to people or animals and already carry a sense of female\/male. Excepting these cases, most English nouns are gender-neutral. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why this may sound weird for English speakers but, in Spanish, ALL nouns are either male or female<\/strong>. For example, <\/span>silla <\/span><\/i>(Spanish for \u201cchair\u201d) is female. Why? Well, because. There\u2019s really no explanation. The only way to know the gender of a noun is to memorize it. But don\u2019t worry. You don\u2019t have to make vocabulary lists and repeat them to boredom if that\u2019s not your style. With time and practice, this will come naturally to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

That said, there is a simple trick<\/strong> to determine the gender of a noun that will ensure your success 9 times out of 10: most<\/em> nouns<\/strong> ending in -o will be male<\/strong> and most\u00a0<\/em>nouns ending in -a<\/strong> will be female. Now there are of course exceptions, but let\u2019s dig a little deeper:<\/span><\/p>\n

General Rules<\/strong><\/h3>\n