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Lesson 6: Declinable nouns

Many nouns that refer to humans and other animals have both a masculine and a feminine form. In this way, we can make a distinction between male cats and female cats, and between a boy and a girl.

The nouns above are called declinable nouns, which means that they change their ending according to their gender. When we do not know the gender of a living being, we use the masculine form of the noun.

While practicing the lessons, you will sometimes see the symbol , which is the symbol for female. For example the cat refers to a female cat, and should be translated with gata and not with gato.