Masculine, Feminine and Neuter Nouns


Masculine & Feminine Nouns                                 

Masculine nouns are words for men and boys, and male animals. It belongs to masculine gender.

Feminine nouns are words for women and girls, and female animals. It belongs to feminine gender.

some more masculine and feminine nouns for people.


Masculine
Feminine
boy 
girl
man
woman
prince
princess
waiter
waitress
bride
bridegroom
king
queen
actor    
actress
brother
sister
emperor
empress
father
mother
gentleman
lady
grandfather
grandmother
grandson
granddaughter
headmaster
headmistress
master
mistress
nephew
niece
prince
princess
son
daughter
steward
stewardess
uncle
aunt
wizard
witch



some masculine and feminine nouns for male and female animals.


Animal
Male
Female
chicken
rooster
hen
cattle
bull
cow
deer
buck
doe
donkey
jack
jenny
duck
drake
duck
fox
fox
vixen
goose
gander
goose
horse
stallion
mare
lion
lion
lioness
sheep
ram
ewe
tiger
tiger
tigress


Note:- Nouns that end in -ess and -ress often belong to the feminine gender.  For
example:

 Actress, stewardess, lioness, tigress, princess, waitress


Common-gender nouns

Many nouns are used for both males and females called common-gender nouns

Example: - accountants, parents, artists, managers, designers, pupils, engineers, singers, lawyers, teachers, doctors, scientists, hairdressers, dancers


Neuter nouns

Words for things that are neither male nor female are called neuter nouns.

Example: - bench, leaves, mirror, fire, water fall, river, sea, pool, ball, forest, building, gymnasium, broom, playground, cake, rock, computer, phone, sky, card, socks, floor wind, wall


Exercise-xxix

   A.  Fill in the table with correct masculine, feminine, common-gender nouns and neuter nouns. Choose the words into the brackets. First raw is done for you.

(doctors, sir, madam, father, wall, manager, window, husband, parents, river, wife, mother, children, sun, fisherwoman, witch, king, boy, bride, son, policeman, girl, queen, file, teacher, lamp, engineer, chair, dancer, desk, wizard, ram, rooster, elf, policewoman, fisherman, wind, broom, jack, scientist, door, jenny, bridegroom, analyzer, leaf, elf, hen, student, daughter, thief, ewe, judge, paper)


Masculine
Feminine
Common-gender
neuter
sir
madam
doctors
wall



















































B.  Fill in the blanks with correct opposite gender nouns. First one is done for you.

1.    Ladies and .... gentleman…., welcome to our party this morning.
2.    My uncle and …………………. Have two daughters and one ………………….
3.    The ………………. and queen had a lots of property.
4.    Dear sir or ……………., please excuse me.
5.    The steward and the …………………… look after the passengers on the plane.
6.    The buck and ……………. are living together in the deepest forest peacefully.
7.    The bride put ring to the …………’s finger.
8.    The number of policeman greater than the number of …………………. In the city of Colombo.
9.    My sister-in-law and ………………… come to the trip with me.
10.  His farm has seventy roosters and fifty ………….
11.  Their nephew and ……………. lived in a village.



Answers-xxix
         
        A.   
Masculine
Feminine
Common-gender
neuter
father
mother
manager
window
husband
wife
parents
river
fisherman
fisherwoman
children
sun
wizard
witch
teacher
file
king
queen
engineer
lamp
boy
girl
dancer
chair
bride
bridegroom
analyzer
paper
son
daughter
elf
wind
policeman
policewoman
student
broom
rooster
hen
thief
leaf
jack
jenny
judge
desk
ram
ewe
scientist
door


        B.   
2.    aunt, son
3.    king
4.    madam
5.    stewardess
6.    doe
7.    bridegroom
8.    policewoman
9.    brother-in-law
10.  hens
11.  niece

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