Gender: gender
Gender
The possible values for Gender in Pomak is masculine, feminine and neuter. It occurs with nominal parts of speech.
Masc: masculine gender
Nouns denoting male persons are masculine. Other nouns may be also grammatically masculine, without any relation to sex.
Examples [qpm]:
Nouns:
- góram “[a] tree”
- pot “[a] street, [a] road”
- sólmen “[a] snail”
- mantár “[a] mashroom”
- hlæb “[a] bread”
- kóren “[a] root”
Adjectives:
- koráv “hard”
- suróv “raw / fresh”
- prav “right”
- zelén “green”
- visók “tall”
- star “old”
Passive Participles:
- umarén “tired”
- adbáven “spoiled / rotten”
- izgorǽt “burnt”
- písan “written”
- kúpen “bought”
- amýt “washed”
Fem: feminine gender
Nouns denoting female persons are feminine. Other nouns may be also grammatically feminine, without any relation to sex.
Examples [qpm]:
Nouns:
- glavá “[a]head”
- maglá “[a] fog”
- godína “[a] year”
- zemǽ “[a] ground”
- žaná “[a] woman”
- kráva “[a] cow”
Adjectives:
- koráva “hard”
- suróva “raw / fresh”
- pravá “right”
- zeléna “green”
- visóka “tall”
- stará “old”
Passive Participles:
- umaréna “tired”
- adbávena “spoiled / rotten”
- izgorǽta “burnt”
- písana “written”
- kúpena “bought”
- amýta “washed”
Neut: neuter gender
Neither masculine nor feminine (grammatically).
Examples [qpm]:
Simple Nouns:
- déte “[a] chld”
- kóte “[a] cat”
- sélo “[a] village”
- séme “[a] seed”
- lísto “[a] leaf”
- krílo “[a] wing”
Verbal Nouns:
- dúmeņe “[a] speech”
- rábateņe “[a] work”
- sedéņe “sitting around”
- vráštaņe “[a] return”
- znáņe “knowledge”
- spaņé “sleep”
Adjectives:
- korávo “hard”
- suróvo “spoiled / rotten”
- právo “right”
- zeléno “green”
- visóko “tall”
- stáro “old”
Passive Participles:
- umaréno “tired”
- adbáveno “spoilt / rotten”
- izgorǽto ‘burnt”
- písano “written”
- kúpeno “bought”
- amýto “washed”
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]