All nouns in Spanish have a gender. They are either masculine or they are feminine. Every noun is either one or the other and you just have to learn them. But there are some clues. Un problema is a ...

One of the things that French learners struggle with the most is the language's complicated and detailed grammar rules - so we're launching a new series, offering a few tips and tricks to help on your ...

I feel your pain, Dazed. Learning a new language is difficult, especially when it comes to grammar — I still don’t get the difference between the comparatives “like” and “such as,” and my parents ...

Debate has long raged in linguistics about the nature of the relationship between nouns and grammatical gender. How a language with a robust grammatical gender system chooses to gender its nouns ...

Countries where citizens speak gendered languages — in which nouns are masculine or feminine — display a higher rate of gender inequality than countries with languages that do not ascribe gender to ...

As everyone knows, there are two genders: common and neuter. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our ...

I believe this to be problematic for reasons similar to those of the signatories of today’s Letter to the Editor. The campus conversation about _____ (noun1) ceases to be productive and is now ...

I’m a Spanish-language student struggling with tenses and the gender of nouns. The other day, some friends and I were discussing street slang, and the word verga (penis) came up (no pun intended). It ...

Post written by François Grosjean. Winston Churchill once said on French radio, with his characteristic English accent when he spoke French, "Despite working so hard and coming so far with the French ...