Questions tagged [género]
Preguntas sobre el género gramatical y su concordancia en nombre, adjetivo y pronombre. // Questions about grammatical (and natural) gender and agreement in the Spanish noun, adjective, and pronoun.
180 questions
8
votes
3
answers
2k
views
What is the grammatical gender of the novel "Don Quijote"?
What is the grammatical gender of the novel "Don Quijote"?
I know that the famous novel's protagonist is male, so the gender is masculine if one refers to the person. But what if one ...
4
votes
1
answer
205
views
Gender of geographical names which are neither city nor country names
How do I determine the gender of geographical names which are neither city nor country names?
I am aware of the following principles for determining the gender of country and city names:
country ...
2
votes
1
answer
59
views
Palabra plural para padres (hombres)
He escrito esta oración:
“Los padres de todos los personajes están ausentes.”
En el cuento a cuál refiero, hay algunos personajes con madres ausentes, y otros con madres presentes, pero ninguno tiene ...
- 123
6
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Usage of ese/esa/eso with implied gender
A friend from Argentina (native) and I (non-native) have been arguing for the past few hours about the grammatical validity of the following bolded sentence:
«Este hecho es interesante: Todo el ...
- 163
2
votes
1
answer
158
views
Why is it "una", and not "uno", in this sentence when "favor" is masculine?
Why is the feminine “una” used instead of the masculine “un” at the end of the Spanish sentence, “Voy a hacerle un favor a Ben, le debe una”. Is it because this sentence is elliptical and refers to &...
- 139
0
votes
0
answers
32
views
How does Spanish handle people that identify as binary as far as with noun + verb agreement? [duplicate]
As gender has become a more varied identification than just male and female for people, how is it dealt with in a language so entrenched in gender?
would a binary person be - ellos and use the plural ...
1
vote
0
answers
30
views
Meaning of repeated "gente" phrase [duplicate]
I listen to Spanish radio and regular invitation/welcome message is "Buenas tardes a la gente gente." I understand the words (I think) but I cannot figure out the role of repeated "...
- 111
1
vote
1
answer
92
views
Meaning of “Se necesita señorita”
In Peru, I’ve been seeing job ads saying variants of “Se necesita señorita” to indicate they need some sort of waitress, shop assistant etc. I know that they’re merely looking for someone young rather ...
- 469
5
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Are there any masculine Spanish nouns ending in -ción or -dad (or just -ad)?
In Spanish there are well-known exceptions to the rule that nouns ending in -a are feminine (el día), and also to the rule that nouns ending in -o are masculine (la mano).
But are there any nouns ...
- 151
4
votes
1
answer
441
views
Is the word Idiota considered masculine, or feminine, or does it depend on the subject?
Is the word Idiota considered masculine, or feminine, or does it depend on the subject? For example, would I say "él es un idiota," "él es una idiota," or "él es un idiota y ...
- 616
2
votes
3
answers
616
views
¿Por qué perro y gato tienen tanto género masculino como femenino?
En español las palabras tienen genero masculino, femenino o neutro. Algunas tienen más de uno. Es el caso de perro y perra, gato y gata. Sin embargo, en Latin, la palabra usada es única (canis y feles)...
- 865
2
votes
2
answers
744
views
Why is Spain men's national football team nicknamed La Roja?
Spain men's national football team is nicknamed La Roja.
But we know that the gender of an adjective should be the same with its noun. So why is it feminine while it is about a men's team?
Also, why ...
- 251
7
votes
3
answers
339
views
How to ask: "What are these?" (items of unknown gender)
If I have an object in my hand that I do not know the Spanish word for, I would ask "¿Qué es esto?" for "What is this?". Since there is no neuter plural pronoun, how do I ask &...
- 71
1
vote
2
answers
179
views
Why do we have both "el arte moderno" and "el arte métrica"? What is the historical origin of this redundancy?
In "el agua fría", we have to use the article "el" because of the stressed "a". The same thing is seen in "el arte métrica".
Now in "el arte métrica", ...
- 119
6
votes
2
answers
1k
views
"Todes les sábades y dominges"? What is this about?
I am looking at this restaurant menu and I see a heading that says "TODES LES SABADES Y DOMINGES":
Why does it say "Todes les Sábades y Dominges"? I would expect "Todos los ...
- 211
0
votes
1
answer
158
views
"No le creo a él o ella". ¿Por qué el pronombre?
I don't believe him or her.
No le creo a él o ella.
Seems that in indrect object pronoun is being used, correct?
What is the indirect object here?
- 549
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Should Femboys be called El Femboy or La Femboy?
Simple question. For the word femboy (feminine boy), should we use El, or La in Spanish.
There are two sides of the argument.
One is because only a male can be a femboy, therefore we use El instead of ...
- 103
1
vote
3
answers
191
views
Why are some singular masculine attributive adjectives treated like that?
All adjectives are either attributive or predicative. Predicative adjectives usually have four forms: singular feminine ending in "-a"; plural feminine ending in "-as"; singular ...
- 119
2
votes
1
answer
217
views
Masculine or feminine [closed]
In the sentence " all of the region is surrounded by green areas/zones...",
should it be ..?
Todo la región está rodeado de zonas verdes
o "Toda la región está rodeada de zonas verdes
...
- 1,663
4
votes
3
answers
320
views
El vs La for Feminine Noun [duplicate]
Sometimes, we use el before a feminine noun, e.g. 'agua', 'ama', 'hambre' and the reason for the same is that the word starts with 'a' (or 'ha') and we do not want to have two 'a' one after another. ...
- 139
7
votes
2
answers
414
views
Using "De él" for a noun
I have a question about using "de él" in Spanish.
I was reading the following sentence as part of a review in a hotel during my Spanish class:
Reservé una habitación individual en este ...
- 673
2
votes
1
answer
89
views
¿Por qué cambiamos el artículo en palabras con género femenino por motivos de pronunciación, pero no hacemos lo mismo con las palabras en masculino?
Según ¿Por qué no se dice la agua?
Cuando un sustantivo femenino (agua, águila, manzana…) empieza por A
tónica, es decir, que el acento, la fuerza al pronunciar, está en esa
A (tenga o no tenga tilde)...
- 3,288
4
votes
0
answers
89
views
How does grammatical gender work for loanwords in Spanish? [duplicate]
Based on a hasty scan of non-Romance Spanish words in RAE’s Diccionario de la lengua española, loanword nouns that were absorbed into the language acquired a male grammatical gender. Examples include ...
- 41
0
votes
1
answer
128
views
Is "femenina" the female equivalent of the English/Spanish word "macho"?
The OED defines the English word "macho" as
a notably or ostentatiously masculine, tough, or vigorous man; one who is aggressively proud of his masculinity.
¿Is "femenina" the ...
- 171
0
votes
1
answer
302
views
How to say Alpha Male and Alpha Female in Spanish?
How does one say
Alpha Male (dominant, macho man)
Alpha Female (dominant, femenina woman)
in Spanish?
- 171
3
votes
1
answer
127
views
¿Por qué dicen "la patria es primero" y no "primera"?
¿Por qué dicen
La patria es primero
y no
La patria es primera
También, por ejemplo,
La panza es primero
0
votes
3
answers
157
views
Boy cat turned out to be a girl - do we need to change the name ending?
We were given a kitten on Cinco de Mayo, and told it was male. We named him "Cinco". Then the vet told us that he is a she! So we figured we might need to call her "Cinca". As in ...
- 13
3
votes
1
answer
396
views
¿Tiene 'alguien' algo que ver con géneros gramaticales?
Una persona me dijo que al usar la palabra 'alguien', ese alguien tiene que ser masculino. ¿Es cierto? Si lo es, ¿existe una palabra análoga para el género femenino?
user27737
1
vote
1
answer
52
views
¿Cómo encontrar el artículo gramatical cuando usamos palabras del inglés en nuestras frases?
A modo de ejemplo, en programación podemos hablar de "la request de un usuario" como también "el request de un usuario" (solicitud de información a través del navegador).
Si bien ...
- 111
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
What is "his/her" in Spanish?
I am wondering on whether there is a "his/her" phrase in Spanish. In English, we just say "his/her", but in Spanish do we just say "su"? Or do we say something like "...
- 132
3
votes
2
answers
225
views
¿El color "púrpura" o "púrpuro"?
"Color" es masculino, por lo que el artículo acompañado es "el".
¿Entonces por qué es "el color púrpura"?
¿O sea no se puede decir, por ejemplo, "un camisón púrpuro&...
- 1,887
-2
votes
3
answers
376
views
Why do some words which violate gender rules? What is the historical origin of this redundancy?
The word "joven" means "youth". A male youth is called "el joven" and a female youth is called "la joven". However, I noticed that there words like "la ...
- 119
2
votes
1
answer
291
views
Colores en la forma feminina o masculina [duplicate]
Vi una oración en un libro El arte de no amargarse la vida (España):
El resto fue a parar al mantel, que quedó teñido por una espesa mancha rojo oscuro.
Si "rojo oscuro" se refiere a "...
- 2,047
2
votes
2
answers
415
views
Why don't we say "un suéter naranjo" or "un suéter roso"? Why doesn't the gender of a color match with the gender of the noun?
In Origin of gender-neutral nouns such as "la/el artista", "la/el testigo", "la/el poeta" I was wondering about the gender of nouns.
I have the same question for ...
- 119
0
votes
1
answer
105
views
¿Se dice “El administración” o “la administración”?
Escuchando un programa de Ecuador he observado que el presentador usó la expresión “el administración del tiempo”.
Buscando en internet encontré las ambas formas de articulación ("el ...
- 209
0
votes
3
answers
477
views
How to predict the gender of nouns with arbitrary endings?
We know that in Spanish and many other languages, nouns ending in -o are mostly masculine and nouns ending in -a are mostly feminine.
We also know that in Spanish, nouns ending in -ión, -ción, -sión, -...
- 119
1
vote
1
answer
230
views
What happens with indígena as an adjective for masculine nouns?
I think I understand how indígena works when used as a noun.
No soy un indígena. Ella es una indígena.
I am not an indigenous person. She is an indigenous person.
But how does indígena work as ...
- 469
3
votes
1
answer
266
views
'el hámster' or 'la hámster' if the hamster is female?
Which definite article ('el' or 'la'?) should be used if a hamster is female ('hembra')?
I know that some spanish speakers pronounce 'hámster' as 'jámster' in which case I imagine that 'la' is used.
...
- 246
11
votes
5
answers
1k
views
Dos millones de personas están... ¿expuestas o expuestos? Un millón de personas... ¿tendrá o tendrán?
Me ha surgido la duda que explico a continuación sobre cómo se tiene que hacer la concordancia de género en frases con un predicado nominal en las cuales el sujeto contiene la expresión "millones de ...
- 1,987
6
votes
2
answers
894
views
What is the gender (and number) of an svg?
Quiero traducir la oración en inglés:
I found an svg.
Pero estoy teniendo problemas con la palabra "svg".
Creo que svg es mejor que gve (Gráficos Vectoriales Escalables) porque el wikipedio de ...
8
votes
2
answers
233
views
Dado que COVID-19 es la enfermedad, ¿sería más correcto decir "la COVID-19"?
En estos tiempos (marzo-abril 2020) he escuchado a unos periodistas decir el COVID-19 y a otros decir la COVID-19.
Tengo entendido que COVID-19 es la enfermedad. Entonces, ¿sería más correcto decir ...
- 81
7
votes
4
answers
3k
views
How do you say "I have two sons"?
"Yo tengo dos hijos" means I have two children or I have two sons. I assume this means "children" by default, but how do you then say: "I have two sons"?
Of course, I could add "Y no hijas" but this ...
0
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Rules on a default for Masculine / Feminine
We've got some web applications that are setup for internationalisation and the next language that we're moving to is going to be Spanish. As Spanish is a masculine/feminine language - I've of course ...
- 109
6
votes
1
answer
85
views
¿Qué artículo se debe usar para un sustantivo femenino que empieza en "a" tónica cuando es implícito?
En la frase:
El agua del río Danubio es muy sucia; la del río Tara, en cambio, es cristalina.
Es correcto el uso del artículo femenino "la" para referirse al sustantivo implícito "agua", o se ...
- 163
6
votes
2
answers
136
views
Problemas de concordancia
Entiendo esto más como una gracia, pero en serio me gustaría saber cómo se puede resolver este dilema de concordancia que se produce, esencialmente, porque la morfología colisiona contra la semántica, ...
- 39.6k
1
vote
2
answers
101
views
el desfile - la desfile?
En un episido de Netflix, Hilda, dos personajes usaban la palabra desfile, pero con dos géneros diferentes...
A: "Bueno, alguien va al desfile de esta noche?"
B: "Las desfiles son para los niños..."
...
- 11
2
votes
1
answer
155
views
"Buen noche": Buen with feminine nouns?
What is the dialectal use of "buen noche"?
It doesn't sound right to me, as "noche" is feminine, but, to be sure, I've make a Google search, and I've found several occurrences, including books.
...
- 585
0
votes
1
answer
58
views
How do i tell which noun is what gender? [duplicate]
This is sort of a beginner's question but I seem to have trouble understanding this. I can never remember la or el or all the other ones on which word they go on. There doesn't seem to be a rule for ...
4
votes
1
answer
81
views
Manejo de 'una' como indefinido
En el Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas, se aclara que el pronombre indefinido uno puede ser usado por una mujer
(...) si la mujer que habla no hace alusión directa a sí misma, sino que habla en ...
- 5,335
2
votes
2
answers
260
views
Duda sobre el género de "bienhallado / a"
Si yo soy un hombre y una mujer me dice "bienvenido", ¿respondo con "bienhallado" o con "bienhallada"?
Así mismo, si un hombre da la bienvenida a un grupo de mujeres, ¿deberían responder con "...
- 123