All nouns in Spanish have a gender. They are either masculine or they are feminine. Every noun is either one or the other and you just have to learn them. But there are some clues. Un problema is a ...

One of the things that French learners struggle with the most is the language's complicated and detailed grammar rules - so we're launching a new series, offering a few tips and tricks to help on your ...

I feel your pain, Dazed. Learning a new language is difficult, especially when it comes to grammar — I still don’t get the difference between the comparatives “like” and “such as,” and my parents ...

Countries where citizens speak gendered languages — in which nouns are masculine or feminine — display a higher rate of gender inequality than countries with languages that do not ascribe gender to ...

Debate has long raged in linguistics about the nature of the relationship between nouns and grammatical gender. How a language with a robust grammatical gender system chooses to gender its nouns ...

It’s all to do with endings. According to a study by linguists at Canada’s McGill University, the end of a French noun gives away its gender in at least 80 percent of cases. Treat words that end in -e ...

I believe this to be problematic for reasons similar to those of the signatories of today’s Letter to the Editor. The campus conversation about _____ (noun1) ceases to be productive and is now ...