Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Gender - Nouns (Cl-2 & 3)

A) A noun that denotes a male animal is said to be the Masculine Gender.
B) A noun that denotes a female animal is said to be the Feminine Gender.

1) There are three ways of forming the Feminine of Nouns.
1) boy - girl  2) brother - sister  3) buck - doe  4) bull or ox - cow  5) horse - mare  6) king - queen
7) husband - wife  8) lord - lady  9) man - woman  10) monk - nun  11) cock - hen  12) sir - madam
13) son - daughter  14) uncle - aunt  15) drone - bee  16) gander - goose  17) mother - father
18) gentleman - lady  19) drake - duck  20) wizard - witch

2) By adding ( -ess, -ine, -trix, -a etc )
1) author - authoress  2) count - countess  3) lion - lioness  4) poet - poetess  5) host - hostess
6) emperor - empress  7) hunter - huntress  8) tiger - tigress  9) prince - princess  10) duke - duchess

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