What is a masculine noun?

Answer 1

In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.

Examples of gender specific nouns for a male are father, son, boy, brother, uncle, king, gander, peacock, boar, buck, bull, stallion.

Answer 2

In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.

Gender is the quality of a noun through which sex is indicated. The types of gender nouns are:

• gender specific nouns for a male such as father, brother, boy, king, bull, stallion.
• gender specific nouns for a female such as aunt, grandmother, niece, queen, cow, mare.
• common gender nouns are words used for a male or a female such as neighbor, lawyer, parent, horse, bird.
• neuter nouns are word for things that have no gender such as desk, house, street, ocean, grass.

Answer 3

In English there are no masculine or feminine words. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female, such as male or female. All other parts of speech (verbs, adjective, adverbs, etc.) are neuter, words that have no gender.

Answer 4

In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.

Examples of gender specific nouns for a male are:

• male
• man
• father
• husband
• son
• nephew
• uncle
• brother
• king
• stallion
• bull
• rooster
• ram
• peacock
• gander
• tom
• boar
• buck
• drone

Examples of gender specific nouns for a female are sister or woman.

Example of common gender nouns are parent or neighbor.

Examples of neuter nouns are heart or hamburger.

Answer 5

In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female;

for example:

actor - actress

boar - sow

boy - girl

bridegroom - bride

brother - sister

buck - doe

buck/ram - ewe/dam

bull - cow

cock - hen

colt - filly

count - countess

dad - mom

Answer 6

In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female. Some examples of gender specific nouns are:

boar/sow

boy/girl

brother/sister

buck/doe

bull/cow

cock/hen

count/countess

father/mother

gentleman/lady

groom/bride

husband/wife

king/queen

lord/lady

man/woman

nephew/niece

peacock/peahen

rooster/hen

stallion/mare

uncle/aunt

widower/widow

Answer 7

In languages that preserve grammatical gender, a "masculine" nouns is one that requires a "masculine" pronoun and requires "masculine" endings on any adjectives defining it. It does not necessarily refer to a male creature. The first gender designation was the "feminine," so-called because its prime example is the Latin word femina meaning " woman." Masculine and neuter gender are so named by analogy with the feminine.

There are no masculine nouns in English because there is no grammatical gender. All English nouns are of the same common gender. There are words that refer to male creatures specifically, such as drake and bull, but they do not require the masculine pronoun and they certainly don't require any endings on their adjectives.

Gender in English is restricted to the personal pronouns and refers specifically to male or female persons on the one hand, and everything else on the other. We may fondly use he or she for our dogs, but properly speaking anything not a person is an it.

Political correction mistakenly argues that words like chairman are masculine and therefore cannot refer to female persons. But gender is in the pronoun, not the noun. Before we all became tongue-tied trying to avoid offending the ignorant, we used to say Madame Chairman without hesitation.