Gender: gender
Gender has two values in Welsh, Masculine and Feminine. All nouns have a gender, some nouns can be either masculine or feminine. A few adjective have distinct forms for masculine and feminine (gwyn/gwen “white”, trwm, trom “heavy”). However adjectives following a feminin (singular) noun are soft mutated. The definite article does not change for Gender, however feminin singular nouns are soft mutated after the article. The numerals dau/dwy “two”, tri/tair “three” and pedwar/pedair “four” have distinct forms for each Gender
Fem: feminine
Examples
- y ci gwyn “the white dog”
- dau gi “two dogs”
- amdano “about him”
Masc: masculine
Examples
- y g*ath we**n “the white cat”
- dwy gath “two cats”
- amdani “aout her”
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