Masculine (definition)

Masculine is one of two grammatical genders, a type of classification of nouns in Scottish Gaelic. In Gaelic gender determines the form of adjectives, pronouns and articles. Grammatical gender need not correspond to actual gender. Assignment to a Gender classes is largely arbitrary. Even nouns that describe objects that lack an obvious sex or gender get a grammatical gender.

Related Notions

• Feminine (definition)
• Articles
• Adjective Inflection
• Case (definition)
• Declension (definition)

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension