Appendix:Grammatical gender

Wikipedia

Unlike English, many languages make use of grammatical genders (also known as noun classes). This page is intended to show which genders various languages use, what they are typically referred to, and how, where applicable, articles, adjectives and similar differ with regard to these genders. For further information, please refer to the Wikipedia article, right.

French

French has two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. Both articles and adjectives must agree with the noun they modify in terms of gender and number.

Articles

Definite article

		Masculine	Feminine
Singular	Before a consonant:	le	la
	Before a vowel:	l'
Plural		les

Indefinite article

	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	un	une
Plural	des

Partitive article

		Masculine	Feminine
Singular	Before a consonant:	du	de la
		Before a vowel:	de l'
Plural		des

See this Wikipedia page for more information.

German

German has three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.

Articles

Articles must agree with a noun's gender, number and case. The plural forms for all genders are the same.

Definite article

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	der	die	das	die
Genitive	des	der	des	der
Dative	dem	der	dem	den
Accusative	den	die	das	die

Swedish

Articles

Swedish has two grammatical genders. Older forms of Swedish had three genders, like German, but the masculine and feminine genders have all merged into the common gender.

Definite forms

Swedish, like the other North Germanic languages, uses suffixes instead of articles to indicate the definite form of a noun.

Natural gender

Adjectives in the definite singular form agree with the natural gender of the noun. It can be either masculine and feminine/neuter. Note that that the f/n form can be used for masculine nouns as well, and is often used gender-neutrally, though it is still considered more correct language usage to apply the masculine form in phrases like den arge mannen "the angry man" and den unge kungen "the young king".