In the Spanish language, everything is either masculine or feminine, somewhat the same as the pronouns in English. In this one sentence, let’s learn three quick Spanish words.

Genero, which means gender, masculine means masculine and feminine means feminine.

A word will be recognised as masculine if:

1. The word ends with ‘O’, such as Galo.
2. If a word ends with a consonant, then it will also be a masculine gender. For example, Amor.

A word will be recognised as feminine if:

1. The word ends with ‘A’, such as Escula, which means school. Alongside this, if a word ends with ‘sis’ or ‘ion’, its gender will also be feminine, such as Cancion.
2. If the word ends with dad/tad/tud. For example, Universidad, Facultad.
3. If the word ends with d/z. For example: Salud means health. Relating with article La Salud that defines The Health, La nariz that defines The nose, La paz which means The peace.

In case of article, ‘The’ has two pathways for masculine and feminine, which are El and La respectively. For example: La Isla, which means The Island.

In Spanish language, gender of article, possessive pronoun, adjectives, demonstrative pronoun changes depending on the gender of Noun.

Such as: El Amore, which means The Love and La Casa, which means The House.

Many Spanish terms two words very profoundly at every meet which are Hasta Luego that defines see you later and Buenas Tardes that means good afternoon. Now if you relate these two words with the gender concept, you can see the correlation.

If a word ends with ‘e’, then it can be both masculine and feminine depending on the word and where it is used. For example: La leche, La verde, La carne all are feminine, whereas El corte, El coche both are masculine.

If a word ends with ‘Ma (মা)’, it will also be defined as a masculine gender. For example: El programa, which means The program.

Few things are there that need to be remembered. If a word has ‘ll’ in it, then the word will never be pronounced as ‘L’ but as ‘Y (ই)’. For example, pollo (পোয়িও), which means chicken. Amarillo (আমারিইয়) means Yellow.

The term ‘De’ means both ‘of’ and ‘on’, depending on where we are using it. For example, La casa de papel means The house of paper.

In English, both John’s book and Book of John are used. Both the structures are absolutely correct. But in Spanish, only the structure followed in ‘Book of John’ is correct and widely used.

For example, The book of Pablo in Spanish is El libro de pablo (De is used as of here) or The cat of Juan is El gato de Juan.

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