In the plural, in all cases but the first, all these genders have the same forms.
In all genders the nominative case equals the vocative.
Adjectives of this declension end in the nominative for all three genders singular and plural in =í=.
Jejich=, theirs, for all three genders is not declined.
Thus the number of genders may increase, while further on in the history of a language the genders may decrease so as almost to disappear.
The growth of a system of genders may take another course.
The pronunciation, as it happens, is just what I am most at home in; if he had said my genders or my idioms there would have been some sense.
I assure you I am often surprised at my own fluency, and, when I get a little more practice in thegenders and the idioms, I shall do very well in this respect.
The general law of progress in language could be illustrated equally well from the history of genders as exhibited in various languages.
In Europe we pass westward from the three genders of Germany, curving through feminine and masculine France (place aux dames!
This use of genders in the denotation of objects or ideas not only affects the words to which genders are attributed, but the words with which they are construed or connected, and passes into the general character of the style.
By figures of rhetoric, genders may be attached to inanimate matter.
Some languages determine their genders by the form of the endings of their nouns, and what is thus made masculine in Rome, may be feminine in France.
But it is in the genders of these article pronouns that the greatest difficulty may be found.
Often by these genders all objects are classified by characteristics found in their attitudes or supposed constitution.
In Indian tongues, genders are usually methods of classification primarily into animate and inanimate.
All the labyrinths of the declension of articles, nouns and adjectives in three genders and plurals, lay before me to be explored.
The weak declension of all gendershas e in all cases of the singular; n.
In the following account of the article and demonstrative the translator is assumed to have taken the genders of French nouns from the French original.
Special care is taken to distinguish the genders and cases, to teach the children "Kaunt deivunt dire moun et ma, soun et sa, le et la, moy et jo .
The masculine and feminine genders are distinguished in three ways: 1.
The genders of nouns are so easily known, that a farther explanation of them is unnecessary, except what is given in the following NOTES.
Write the declension and give it orally across the page, thus giving the three gendersfor each case.
What are the nominative endings and genders of nouns of the fourth or «u»-declension?
Observe that the several cases of adjectives of one ending have the same form for all genders excepting in the accusative singular and in the nominative and accusative plural.
Unlike most of these, Armenian lost its genders long before the year A.
So the Armenians were ever in contact on the north with the Iberians of the Caucasus who had none, and with the Semitic races on the south and east which had other ways of forming genders than the Indo-European tongues.
The forms it (for hit) and he are as muchgenders as hic and haec, and the forms hic and haec are as much genders as dominus and domina.
With the false genderslike baron, baroness, it is a general rule that the feminine form is derived from the masculine, and not the masculine from the feminine; as peer, peeress.
The remainder of this chapter is devoted to miscellaneous remarks upon the true and apparent genders of the English language.
The syllable -es as a sign of the genitive case extended to all genders and to all declensions; heart's for heortan; sun's for sunnan.
Although we have, in English, words corresponding to genitrix and genitor, we have no true genders until we find words corresponding to dominus and domina.
I assure you I’m often surprised at my own fluency, and when I get a little more practice in the circumflex accents and the genders and the idioms I shall quite hold my own.
The pronunciation, as it happens, is just what I’m most at home in; if he had said my genders or my subjunctives or my idioms there would have been some sense.
Protagoras distinguished the three genders and the verbal moods, while Prodicus busied himself with the definition of synonyms.
We cannot speak of declensions, since English has no genders except in the pronouns of the third person, and no cases except the genitive and a few faint traces of an old dative.
The forms it (for hit) and he are as muchgenders as hoc and hic, and the forms hoc and hic are as much genders as bonum and bonus.
The syllable -es as a sign of the genitive case extended to all genders and to all declensions; heart's for heortan; sun's for sunnan.
During this period the English gradually lost these fanciful genderswhich the German still retains.
A relative placed between two substantives of different genders and numbers, sometimes agrees with the latter, as Pueri tuentur illum librum quæ Latina Grammatices et Comica dicitur.
The genders of nouns, which are three, the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter, are denoted in Latin by articles.
They have as many genders as ourselves, as many numbers as the Greeks.
All beings are divided into two classes, which do not correspond either with the Aryan genders or with the distinctions of animate and inanimate which prevail in the Algonkin tongues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "genders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
