GENDERS OF NOUN : Masculine and Feminine Nouns

There are four kinds of Gender of Noun in English. Those are:

1). Masculine Gender

2). Feminine Gender

3). Neuter Gender

4). Common Gender

1). MASCUINE GENDER

DEFINITION: Masculine Gender is a name that denotes a male person or animal.

Example: grandfather, father, uncle, brother, nephew, son, man…

2). FEMININE GENDER

DEFINITION: Feminine Gender is a name that expresses a female person or animal.

Example: grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, niece, daughter, woman…

3). NEUTER GENDER

DEFINITION: Neuter Gender is a name that shows a thing which is neither male nor female, especially with thing without life.

Example: table, book, car, train, pen, house, school, chair…

4). COMMON GENDER

DEFINITION: Common Gender is used to stand in stead of male or female nouns.

Example: grandparents, parents, guardian, child, student, friend, cousin, enemy…

Grammatical gender

Grammatical gender is a system of noun classification. A common gender classification includes masculine and feminine categories. Masculine nouns are words for men, boys and male animals. Feminine nouns are words for women, girls and female animals.

Masculine and feminine nouns

Masculine	Feminine
actor	actress
author	authoress
bachelor	spinster
boy	girl
bridegroom	groom
brother	sister
conductor	conductress
count	countess
czar	czarina
dad	mum
daddy	mummy
duke	duchess
man	woman
emperor	empress
father	mother
god	goddess
grandfather	grandmother
heir	heiress
hero	heroine
host	hostess
husband	wife
king	queen
man	woman
master	mistress
murderer	murderess
nephew	niece
poet	poetess
policeman	policewoman
prince	princess
sir	madam
son	daughter
uncle	aunt
wizard	witch
waiter	waitress

Common gender nouns

Some nouns are used for both males and females. These nouns are referred to as common gender nouns.

Examples

• baby,
• bird,
• cat,
• cattle,
• child,
• companion,
• comrade,
• cousin,
• dancer,
• deer,
• friend,
• guardian,
• guest,
• infant,
• owner,
• parent,
• passenger,
• pig,
• president,
• pupil,
• relative,
• sheep,
• singer,
• student,
• swan,
• teacher,

Animals

With animals, there is one general word for the animal. There are however many species of animals, particularly those domesticated, have been given specific names for the male, the female.

animal	masculine	feminine
rabbit	buck	doe
horse	stallion	mare
sheep	ram	ewe
pig	boar	sow
chicken	rooster	hen
duck	drake	duck
cattle	bull	cow
goose	gander	goose
fox	fox	vixen
tiger	tiger	tigress
lion	lion	lioness

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Masculine and Feminine Nouns

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