GENDER

GENDER:

DEFINITION: Gender's lexical meaning is gender. That is, Gender is the name or name of any noun or pronoun, which is expressed with the noun or pronoun, both females, male, female or both sexes.

Types of Gender

Generally, there are four types of gender.

    Masculine Gender
    Feminine Gender
    Neuter Gender
    Common Gender


i. Masculine Gender

A noun or pronoun that refers to the male behavior of an animal is called the Masculine Gender. For example - Man, Boy, Brother, Bull, He, Dog, Cock, etc.

ii. Feminine Gender

The noun or pronoun, by which a female's wife talks about the condition of the person, is called Feminine Gender. For example - Woman, Cow, Sister, Girl, She, Bitch, Hen, etc.

iii. Neuter Gender

The noun, which does not refer to any condition of a female or male, is called Neuter Gender. Such as Book, Pen, Table, etc.

iv. Common Gender

By the noun or pronoun, the male or female of any animal refers to any condition as common gender. Such as - Baby, Cousin, Student, Teacher, Citizen, Enemy, etc.

The rules of gender change

Rule 1 -
In the case of several nouns, Feminine Gender is used to use completely different words. For example –

       

Masculine	Feminine
Father	Mother
Brother	Sister
Husband	Wife
King	Queen
Fox	Vixen
Dog	Bitch
Male	Female
Uncle	Aunt
Wizard	Witch
Bull	Cow
Lord	Lady
Sir	Madam
Tailor	Seamstress
Papa	Mamma

  Rule 2 -
Feminine genders are used by adding "ess" at the end of many nouns. For example,

Masculine	Feminine
Author	Authoress
Baron	Baroness
Count	Countess
Heir	Heiress
Peer	Peeress
Prophet	Prophetess
Steward	Stewardess
Manager	Manageress
God	Goddess
Priest	Priestess
Host	Hostess
Jew	Jewess
Lion	Lioness
Poet	Poetess

  Rule 3-
After extracting the last vowel of several Masculine nouns, feminine is added by adding "ess" at the end of them. For example –

Masculine	Feminine
Actor	Actress
Conductor	Conductress
Hunter	Huntress
Instructor	Instructress
Songster	Songstress
Traitor	Traitors
Benefactor	Benefactress
Tiger	Tigress
Director	directress