Gender / Noun Class Tag
What grammatical class does this noun belong to?
Ý nghĩa
A grammatical category such as masculine/feminine/neuter or a noun class that can affect articles, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, or agreement.
Cách nhận biết
Notice whether nouns carry a class that other words must match.
Ví dụ
masculine|feminine|neuter|class noun
la casa roja|der Mann|une table
The adjective changes to match the noun.
Visual guide
Noun has a class tag: casa [feminine] Matching words copy it: la casa roja la = feminine article roja = feminine adjective Class → agreement
Class systems vary: No class: no tag to match Gender: masc/fem/neut der Mann, une table Many classes: class 1/2/... Agreement may affect: article adjective pronoun verb
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Trong ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ của Bạn
Vietnamese has no grammatical gender or noun classes, though classifiers and pronouns carry semantic/social information.
Bạn tôi là giáo viên.
friend my is teacher
Trong ngôn ngữ Bạn đang học
English has natural gender in many pronouns and some words, but nouns do not belong to a broad grammatical gender class system.
The actor said he was ready.
he = natural gender reference
Learners from gendered languages may look for noun gender where English usually has none.
Good transfer potential
This block behaves relatively similarly, so you can transfer intuition more safely between the two languages.