When we know a little more about the nouns, we find that they, among the grammatical classes, are constituted by several characteristics. How about remembering them? It's simple, just access the texts "nouns" and "noun gender”.
Well, when it comes to this last subject, we find that "gender" is related to the male and female forms, which obey certain specific criteria, such as:
* The presence of the article, as in:
the driver - the driver
* The representation of the words male and female, such as:
male alligator
female alligator, among others.
Thus, what we will learn from now on refers to those nouns that have distinct stems (both in the male and female forms), different in some cases, such as:
patO - patThe
girlO - girlThe
In these examples, the mark that differentiates the feminine from the masculine is just the change from the article “o” to “a” and vice versa. Something different happens in heteronymous nouns, shall we see?
Heteronyms nouns have different stems for both feminine and masculine
In heteronymous nouns there is a lot of difference between masculine and feminine
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
