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Grammar:Tutorial/Nouns and gender

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Names of cities and countries are feminine.
 
==Some examples==
 
[[Hebrew:עוף|עוף]] - a bird (masculine).
 
[[Hebrew:מיץ|מיץ]] - squeezing, pressing, wringing (masculine), ''an abstract concept''.
 
[[Hebrew:יבשה|יבשה]] - dry ground (ends with ה and is feminine, as usual for words with this last letter).
 
[[Hebrew:ארץ|ארץ]] - country, earth (female despite does not end with ה or ת); with definite article (see below) means "Earth".
 
[[Hebrew:עדן|עדן]] - Eden (feminine as any geographical name).

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