A1
Gender of Nouns
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About this concept
Irish nouns are masculine or feminine. Gender affects article behavior, adjective agreement, and pronoun reference. Most nouns ending in a broad consonant are masculine; those ending in a slender consonant, -óg, or -eog tend to be feminine.
In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~35 cards at level A1.
Examples
an fear (m) - the manmasculine, no mutation
an bhean (f) - the womanfeminine, lenition
an bord (m) - the tablemasculine
an fhuinneog (f) - the windowfeminine, lenition
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