Galician:Gender

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Galego
Galician
Family
Sub-family
Language of
Script
Indo-European Italic gl.png Galicia, Spain; EU.png European Union
(accepted as a dialect of Portuguese)
Latin

Galician, like most Romance languages, has two genders: masculine and feminine. Genders help to determine grammatical items such as adjective and article agreement.

Masculine Feminine Masculine (plural) Feminine (plural)
Definite article o a os as
Indefinite article un unha uns unhas
Adjective (-o) branco branca brancos brancas

Below are examples listed for each permutation of gender.

Noun (English) Noun (Galician) Definite Indefinite pequeno
Masculine horse cabalo o cabalo un cabalo cabalo pequeno
Feminine street rúa a rúa unha rúa rúa pequena
Masculine (plural) sons fillos os fillos uns fillos fillos pequenos
Feminine (plural) mountains montañas as montañas unhas montañas montañas pequenas
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