We use these words (also known as indefinite articles) before the noun when we are talking about something that's not specific. In fact, Old English had three different genders: masculine, feminine ...

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 ...

Instead, it's really more to do with the construction of the word and its spelling, which is where the '80 percent trick' comes in . . . Proof that French nouns don’t follow sensible rules comes with ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...