Questions & Answers about Mon cousin est européen.
What would this sentence look like if I were talking about a female cousin?
Does the pronunciation change between européen and européenne?
Yes, noticeably! The masculine européen ends with a nasal vowel sound, meaning you don't actually pronounce the "n". But in the feminine européenne, the double "n" followed by a silent "e" means you lose the nasal sound and pronounce a clear, hard "n" at the end.
Why isn't européen capitalized, since "European" is capitalized in English?
How do we know the cousin in this sentence is male?
Two clues: the noun itself is spelled cousin (the female version is cousine), and it uses the masculine possessive adjective mon instead of the feminine ma.