Most place names are masculine. Except those places that end with the letter e - they are usually feminine. Apart from a few, such as... Nouns that derive from verbs - they usually end with eur ...

Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic and Welsh have masculine and feminine nouns, as do most other European and Indian languages such as French, Spanish, German, Polish, and Hindi.

Many languages give gender to their nouns, but not English, though that was not always the case. Until about the 1200s, English had masculine and feminine nouns, the way French, Spanish, Italian, and ...

If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even ... and chocolate are masculine. In Arabic, soup and the calendar year are feminine.

Why is that? English is one of the few languages that does not distinguish between masculine and feminine nouns. For example, in English, a cat is a cat, and a dog is a dog. But in French (for ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. If you die in some states and your son is appointed to handle your estate, he is the “executor.” If it’s ...

If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even ... and chocolate are masculine. In Arabic, soup and the calendar year are feminine.