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 ...

All nouns in German are either masculine, feminine or neuter. When you learn that the word for dog is Hund, learn that it’s a masculine noun - der Hund. For masculine nouns der means ‘the’ - der Hund ...

Michel Martin speaks with Washington Post reporter Samantha Schmidt about a push by some Argentine teenagers to use gender-neutral nouns in Spanish. We'd like to spend a few minutes now talking about ...

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 ...