For instance, according to Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, the Arabic root ( to sacrifice ) can be derived the forms ( he sacrificed ), ( you ( masculine singular ) sacrificed ), ( he slaughtered ), ( he slaughters ), and ( slaughterhouse ).

* Gender binary, the classification of sex and gender into two distinct and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine

While masculine, feminine, and neuter genders are recognized, nouns do not normally decline for gender, though some nouns, especially Latin words and personal names, exist in multiple forms corresponding to different genders: Alumnus ( male, singular )/ Alumna ( female, singular ); Andrew / Andrea, Paul / Paula, etc.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

Pronouns show distinctions in person ( 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ), number ( singular, dual, and plural in the ancient language ; singular and plural alone in later stages ), and gender ( masculine, feminine, and neuter ), and decline for case ( from six cases in the earliest forms attested to four in the modern language ).

Most English personal pronouns have five forms ; in addition to the nominative and oblique case forms, the possessive case has both a determiner form ( such as my, our ) and a distinct independent form ( such as mine, ours ) ( with the exceptions that these are not distinct for the third person singular masculine car, it is his and that the third person singular neuter it does not have the possessive independent form ); and they have a distinct reflexive or intensive form ( such as myself, ourselves ).

There are a few words with both masculine and feminine forms, generally words for relatives ( cousin: lehengusu ( m )/ lehengusina ( f )) or words borrowed from Latin (" king ": errege, from the Latin word regem ; " queen ": erregina, from reginam ).

As in Ido, inflections marking gender are optional, although some gender-specific nouns such as femina, " woman ", happen to end in-a or-o. Interlingua has feminine pronouns, and its general pronoun forms are also used as masculine pronouns.

One of the characters is Colonel Vavara Novikova ( Russian surnames having masculine and feminine forms ), who accompanies the protagonist and antagonist back in time to their birth so that they can be delivered to the orphanage where their story begins.

For example, in French, the singular form of the definite article is le with masculine nouns and la with feminines ; adjectives and certain verb forms also change ( with the addition of-e with feminines ).

Most adjectives ' feminine singular forms are formed from their masculine singular forms by adding-e, though some common endings have different patterns ; adjectives ending in-eux, for example, typically have feminine singular forms ending in-euse.

Similarly, most adjectives ' masculine and feminine plural forms are formed from their corresponding singular forms by adding-s, though sometimes-x is added instead, and nothing is added if the corresponding singular form already ends in-s ,-x, or-z.

With a few adjectives of the latter type, there are two masculine singular forms: one used before consonants ( the default form ), and one used before vowels.

Tetum does not have separate masculine and feminine forms of the third person singular, hence nia ( similar to dia in Indonesian and Malay ) can mean either " he ", " she " or " it ".

The masculine and feminine forms of other adjectives derived from Portuguese are sometimes used with Portuguese loanwords, particularly by Portuguese-educated speakers of Tetum.

* For the plural, ** kubar would be expected, but separate masculine plural akābir أكابر and feminine plural kubrayāt كبريات are found as irregular forms.

Adjectives may agree with the noun they modify ; examples of plural forms are the French petits and petites ( the masculine plural and feminine plural respectively of petit ).

person singular, whose declined forms are also gender-specific: he ( masculine ), she ( feminine ), and it ( neuter, used for objects, abstractions, and most animals ).

In Nynorsk these are important distinctions, in contrast to Bokmål, in which all feminine words may also become masculine ( due to the incomplete transition to a three-gender system ) and inflect using its forms, and indeed a feminine word may be seen in both forms, for example boka or boken (“ the book ”).

The accusative is marked for masculine articles, pronouns, and adjectives.

The verses therefore read: " And the lord provided a great fish ( dag gadol, masculine ) for Jonah, and it swallowed him, and Jonah sat in the belly of the fish ( still male ) for three days and nights ; then, from the belly of the ( daga, female ) fish, Jonah began to pray.

Cross-dressers have complained that society permits women to wear pants or jeans and other masculine clothing, while condemning any man who wants to wear clothing sold for women.

Philosophically, it stands the dark, passive, feminine principle ; whereas Yang ( the hillside facing the sun ) stands for the bright, active, masculine principle.

In German, many nouns carry a grammatical gender — which, for roles or job titles, is felt usually as masculine.

Suffixes such as-ess ,-ette, and-er can also derive overtly gendered versions of nouns, with marking for feminine being much more common than marking for masculine.

While Oath of the Horatii and Oath of the Tennis Court stress the importance of masculine self-sacrifice for one's country and patriotism, the Distribution of Eagles would ask for self-sacrifice for one's Emperor ( Napoleon ) and the importance of battlefield glory.

Except for one dubious example of a third-person feminine singular verb associated with Qoheleth, the subject always uses masculine nouns and even refers to his wife and women.

Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.

In his " New Atlantis ", Bacon describes his utopian island as being " the chastest nation under heaven ", in which there was no prostitution or adultery, and further saying that " as for masculine love, they have no touch of it ".

* Ido has the masculine infix-ul and the feminine infix-in for animate beings.

There are third person singular and plural pronouns for all three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter, but also gender-free pronouns.

Use of masculine and feminine gender nouns and sentence structure are usually omitted or interchanged, and many native Hausa nouns and verbs are substituted for non-native terms from local languages.

For example, DUKTIG ( meaning: good, well-behaved ) is a line of children's toys, OSLO is a name of a bed, BILLY ( a Swedish masculine name ) is a popular bookcase, DINERA ( meaning: ( to ) dine ) for tableware, KASSETT ( meaning: cassette ) for media storage.

In German, masculine nouns change their definite article from der to den in the accusative case.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

The masculine alp survives in German with a shifted meaning of " nightmare ".

Category: German masculine given names

An inhabitant of Hesse is called a Hessian ( German: Hesse ( masculine ) or Hessin ( feminine )) ( see also Hessian ( soldiers )).

Category: German masculine given names

Category: German masculine given names

Category: German masculine given names

Jungfrau, with some masculine modifier, is more typical, as evidenced by the film, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, about a 40 year-old male virgin, titled in German, " Jungfrau ( 40 ), männlich, sucht …".

Category: German masculine given names

Category: German masculine given names

Category: German masculine given names

Category: German masculine given names

Category: German masculine given names

It may be related to an Old High German masculine proper name Madelhart, clues lying in the alternate English forms " maudelard " or " mawdelard ".

The three genders in German are masculine, feminine and neuter.

A German noun has one of three specific grammatical genders ( masculine, feminine, neuter ).

German has all three genders of late Proto-Indo-European — the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter.