Gender: gender
| Values: | Com | Fem | Masc | Neut |
Gender is a lexical feature of nouns, proper nouns, adjectives, determiners, pronouns, numerals and verbs(participles). There are three values of gender: masculine, feminine, and neuter. In Modern Greek Gender is grammatical although, in the case of annimates, it is more likely that grammatical gender denotes the sex.
Fem: feminine gender
Nouns denoting female persons are feminine. Other nouns may be also grammatically feminine, without any relation to sex.
Examples
- Μαρία “Mary”
- γυναίκα “woman”
- νοσοκόμα “(female) nurse”
- αυλή “yard”
Masc: masculine gender
Nouns denoting male persons are masculine. Other nouns may be also grammatically masculine, without any relation to sex.
Examples
- Γιώργος “Geogre”
- άντρας “man”
- δικαστής “judge”
- σωλήνας “pipe”
Neut: neuter gender
This third gender is for nouns that are neither masculine nor feminine (grammatically). They still may denote humans of either sex.
Examples
- αγόρι “boy”
- κορίτσι “girl”
- το Λενιώ “Helen (diminutive)”
- χωριό “village”
- σχολείο “school”
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]