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Grammar:Tutorial/Nouns and gender
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There are two grammatical genders: male and female.
The following is a rule (but there are many exceptions from this rule):
- a noun ending with 讛 or 转 is feminine;
- the rest of the nouns are masculine;
Names of cities and countries are feminine.
Some examples of nouns
注讜祝 - a bird (masculine).
诪讬抓 - squeezing, pressing, wringing (masculine), an abstract concept.
讬讘砖讛 - dry ground (ends with 讛 and is feminine, as usual for words with this last letter).
讗专抓 - country, earth (female despite does not end with 讛 or 转); with definite article (see below) means "Earth".
注讚谉 - Eden (feminine as any geographical name).
