10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASCULINE ENDING»
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Joan Smith. Loretta caught the eye of the head waiter who, swiftly and without
fuss, showed her to a table in the recesses of the restaurant. Grateful that she had
been refreshing her French in preparation for the meeting she was due to attend
...
2
Professions of a Lucky Jew
I wonder whether there is any other language in which even the cardinal
numbers are different for the male and the female, and in which, to make matters
just a bit more complicated, the feminine number has a masculine ending, and
vice ...
3
A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
A masculine ending is an ending which is always found in masculine adjec- tives
(2) and often in masculine substantives; a feminine ending is an ending which is
always found in feminine adjectives and often in feminine substantives. Thus the
...
... agreeing in gender with the generic noun (Sorbus leyana Wilmott is a tree
taking, like many others, the feminine gender despite the masculine ending, and
so the epithet which commemorates Augustin Ley also takes the feminine ending
).
5
But I'm Not a Reading Teacher: Strategies for Literacy ...
Thus, the word via (i.e., way, in English) is feminine, having a feminine ending;
carrus (i.e., cart, in English) is masculine, having a masculine ending. We call the
concept of naming a nonliving thing as masculine or feminine grammatical ...
6
The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the ...
That here (qaröb), although a predicate of (as-sä=a) (the hour), does not have the
expected feminine, but instead (also according to Syro-Aramaic grammar) a
masculine ending, will again be explained here by the evident need to rhyme.
Christoph Luxenberg, 2007
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Compendium of the World's Languages
A typical masculine ending is -al: e.g. andal 'blind man'. NUMBER A masculine
plural ending is -ir/-iir: e.g. kaqciir 'boys'. Non-masculine plural endings are -ng, -(
i)k: e.g. ({uvvalik 'tigers'; marak 'trees'; kork 'fowls'. CASE SYSTEM The case ...
George L. Campbell, Gareth King, 2013
... del femminile A. Many nouns referring to people or animals are changed to the
feminine form by replacing the masculine ending with a feminine ending.
ENDING MASCULIN'E FEMININE -o a -a amico amica -e a -a signore signora -
a a ...
Antonio Morena, Donatella Melucci, Annamaria Moneti, 2010
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More Morphologies: Contributions to the Festival of ...
Some neuter nouns do not lose their gender ending though, the neuter ending
being simply substituted by the masculine ending: (11) Rus. morožnoe ('ice-
cream') Kaz.-Rus. morožnyj Rus. budušee ('future') Kaz.-Rus. (7) A VOOBŠE men
...
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Cuadros Student Text, Volume 1 of 4: Introductory Spanish
Gender: If an adjective is used to modify a masculine noun, the adjective must
have a masculine ending. If it is used to modify a feminine noun, it must have a
feminine ending. u The masculine ending for adjectives ending in -0 is the o form.
u ...
Sheri Spaine Long, Sylvia Madrigal Velasco, Kristin Swanson, 2012
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASCULINE ENDING»
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masculine ending is used in the context of the following news items.
9 extremely pretentious Latin and Greek plurals
... in octopus comes from the Greek pous for foot, and not the Latin second declension masculine ending, making octopodes the correct form. «The Week Magazine, Apr 13»
Sorcerer for the Goose and Gander
... to a masculine Yiddish noun, and “a wonderful balbooster,” in which Yiddish balebuste, an able housewife, is given a masculine ending. «Forward, Jan 12»
Eat This! Arancini, great balls of flavor from Sicily
The plural is usually given the masculine ending — as befits balls, I suppose — although around Palermo and Agrigento, they spell it arancine ... «Dining Chicago, Oct 09»
Janet McTeer
That same year, McTeer stepped into the shoes of super-sleuthing professor Loretta Lawson in the made-for-TV mystery A Masculine Ending, and she reprised ... «New York Times, Apr 05»
