How to determine the gender of a noun from

Determine the noun gender by the ending or final consonant. Masculine words are in consonant and –y. For example, a house, a loaf. Feminine are nouns in –a, -I, -ia. For example, my cousin, my family. To the average family are nouns in –o, -e, -ie. For example, a window dress.

Let's see whether this noun is an exception. These include nouns ending in –s. Such nouns can be both feminine and masculine. So, the word dictionary refers to the masculine, and the word notebook to female.

Pay attention to the kind of animate nouns. It is nouns that denote living beings. Such words are either feminine or masculine. Exception – a child, an animal, which belong to the middle family. Have animate nouns identify the genus or natural gender of a human or animal, or the end of the noun. Elephant – noun masculine, APE – noun feminine.

Correctly identify the race of nouns denoting profession. They are male and female. The majority of nouns denoting profession, refers to the masculine: a doctor, an engineer, a teacher.

Pay special attention to the kind of the borrowed nouns. Nouns of foreign origin often have atypical for the Russian language the endings-and, -u, -Yu. Such nouns do not change neither the numbers, nor cases. To the masculine gender include masculine names and names of cities and Islands. Feminine refers to female names, names of rivers and names of Newspapers. To the average rod will take the names of inanimate objects.