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Spanish Gender Nouns

Table of Contents
1. Nouns Referring To People or Gender In Spanish	2. Grammar Extra for Gender Nouns!
3. Form Masculine or Feminine Nouns in Spanish by Changing the Ending	4. Examples of Masculine nouns
5. Names of Months, Days, Oceans, Seas, Numbers, Rivers, Mountains are Usually Masculine Nouns	6. Feminine Nouns
7. Ending Of Feminine Nouns In Spanish

Nouns Referring To People or Gender In Spanish

Masculine Nouns:- Masculine Nouns are Gender nouns referring to Male example are Men and Boys.

See Examples Below.

El hombre =The man
el rey =The king
la mujer =The Woman
la reina =The Queen
el estudiante =The (male) Student
la estudiante =The (female) student
el belga =The Belgian (Man)
la belga =The Belgian (woman)

Grammar Extra for Gender Nouns!

Some words for people have only one possible gender, whether they refer to a male or female.

la persona =The Male or Female Person
la victima =The (Male or Female) Victim

Form Masculine or Feminine Nouns in Spanish by Changing the Ending

To make a word masculine or feminine especially in English, try changing the ending, for example, Englishman and Englishwoman or prince and princess. Similarly, In Spanish, very often the by changing the ending of a noun to refer a man or woman, words are formed.

Imp Note: Note that a noun ending in -O is generally masculine, and a noun ending in -a are feminine

el camarero =The Waiter
la camarera =The Waitress
el empleado =The Employee (Male)
la empleada =The Employee (Female)
el ingles =The Englishman
la inglesa =The Englishwoman

Examples of Masculine nouns

1	Nouns in Spanish are called los sustantivos.
2	In Spanish all nouns have a gender.
3	They can either be masculine or feminine.
4	There are some rules which help you recognise the gender. However, there are exceptions also.

El libro =Words that end with ‘o’
El ají =Words that end with an accented vowel
El rumor =Words that end with consonants except d and z
El perfume =Some words ending with ‘e’
El idioma =Few words ending with ‘ma’

Names of Months, Days, Oceans, Seas, Numbers, Rivers, Mountains are Usually Masculine Nouns

For Example

1	el mayo	The May
2	el martes	On Tuesday
3	el Océano Pacifico	The Pacific Ocean
4	el Balearic Sea	The Belearic Sea
5	el uno	The One
6	el Tagus	The Tagus

el mayo =The May
el uno =The One

Feminine Nouns

With the Below explanation you can now recognize the genders of Spanish nouns more accurately and can learn and memorize them more easily. In Spanish, a noun’s gender and number play an important role that will help you to frame a grammatically correct sentence.

La mesa =Words that end with ‘a’
La salud =Words that end with ‘d’
La nariz =Words that end with ‘z’
La canción =Words that end with ‘ión’

Ending Of Feminine Nouns In Spanish

The Following Noun endings are generally found on feminine. Examples

Feminine ending	Examples
-a	la casa the house la cara the face	BUT el dia the day el mapa the map el planeta the planet el tranvia the tram and other words with -ma in the end(el problema the problem, el programa the programme, el sistema the system, el clima the climate)
-cion	la leccion the lesson
-sion	la estacion the station la expresion the expression
-dad	la ciudad the city
-tad	la libertad freedom
-tud	la multitud the crowd