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| Raчraч Ŋuɲa Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 5819 days ago 154 posts - 233 votes  Speaks: Bikol languages*, Tagalog, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, Russian, Japanese | Message 17 of 18 21 December 2010 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | ||
Tamil has one of the most consistent gender assignment. It has 3 genders : male rational, female rational and non-rational. Once you know the meaning of the word, you know its gender, with very few exceptions. The agent of the action agrees in person, number and gender with the finite verb. Tamil finite verbs are conjugated for voice, tense, aspect, modality, number, person, and gender. Edited by Raчraч Ŋuɲa on 21 December 2010 at 12:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 18 of 18 08 January 2011 at 1:50am | IP Logged | ||
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In Latvian and Lithuanian there are rules of thumb that you can use reasonably confidently to determine the gender of a noun as long as you know its nominative singular form (i.e. "basic form").
Latvian - masculine nouns most often end with -s, -is or -us in nominative singular. - feminine nouns most often end with -a or -e in nominative singular. Not covered by these rules of thumb are smasculine singular nouns ending in -š, while a few feminine singular nouns end with -s just like masculine nouns. Lithuanian - masculine nouns most often end with -as, -ys, -us or -uo in nominative singular - feminine nouns most often end with -a, -ė or -i in nominative singular. The tricky part is that masculine and feminine nouns can end in -is in nominative singular. There is also a notable exception to the rule about masculine nouns ending in -uo. "Sesuo" (sister) is feminine even though it has an ending that occurs most frequently with masculine nouns. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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