In the case of Romance languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan, one of the most fundamental aspects of grammar is gender. Nouns, adjectives and pronouns are typically ...

One of the biggest challenges for speakers of non-gendered languages such as English is figuring out how to get their heads ...

No, French is not the only one to determine a gender to its nouns, Spanish, Italian or even German do it naturally. What is strange is that the same noun can be of a different gender depending on the ...

Open up any French dictionary, and next to the nouns will be, in small type, nom masculin or nom feminine (often abbreviated to nm or nf). New words. That's all very well for words that have been ...