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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 &...
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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 ...
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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 "...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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¿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)...
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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 ...
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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 &...
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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", ...
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"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 ...
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"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?
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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 ...
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