Gender: gender
| Values: | Fem | Masc | Neut |
Gender is a lexical feature of nouns and inflectional feature of other parts of speech (adjectives, verbs) that mark agreement with nouns. There are three values of gender: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
See also the related feature of Animacy.
Masc: masculine gender
Nouns denoting male persons are masculine. Other nouns may be also grammatically masculine, without any relation to sex.
Examples
- pán “gentleman”
- hrad “castle”
- muž “man”
- stroj “machine”
- předseda “chairman”
- soudce “judge”
Fem: feminine gender
Nouns denoting female persons are feminine. Other nouns may be also grammatically feminine, without any relation to sex.
Examples
- žena “woman”
- růže “rose”
- píseň “song”
- kost “bone”
Neut: neuter gender
This third gender is for nouns that are neither masculine nor feminine (grammatically). Nouns whose nominative suffix is -o or -í (including a large group of deverbative nouns denoting actions) are usually neuter.
Examples
- město “city”
- moře “sea”
- kuře “chicken”
- stavení “building”
Gender in other languages: [bej] [bg] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hbo] [it] [myv] [ps] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [u] [uk]