Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Masculine Gender

Definition: 

Masculine gender is a grammatical gender that:

  • marks nouns having human or animal male referents
  • often marks nouns having referents that do not have distinctions of sex
Examples: 

(Spanish)

  • el hombre ‘the man’
  • el gallino ‘the rooster’
  • el libro ‘the book’
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