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Finding the appropriate feminine alternative to masculine words is not easy.
The number of inherently masculine words has gradually diminished over the years.
Note also that some masculine words can end in /t/.
Hagenbeck plans to switch the masculine words with more gender-neutral synonyms.
Another gender-related change has been a gradual reduction of the number of inherently masculine words.
Feminine job titles are usually created by adding -in to the grammatically masculine word in question.
There are also proposals for dealing with the remaining inherently masculine words such as patro "father", but none have gained general acceptance.
Masculine words ending in -a are unvarying.
The indefinite articles (a, an) are nu-for masculine words and na for feminine words.
Most participants more rapidly linked science-related words with the masculine words than with the feminine words, according to the study's authors.
Most polysyllabic masculine words ending in -às, -ís, ús.
Language guides suggest using all ambiguous words neutrally, and many people find this the least confusing approach-and so the ranks of masculine words gradually dwindle.
Words that were traditionally feminine are still referred to with zij, whereas traditionally masculine words retain the use of hij.
Der Mensch is a grammatically masculine word which means "human being" or "person", and is the traditional Germanic word used to mean this.
The fourth declension is a group of nouns consisting of mostly masculine words such as fluctus, fluctūs (masc.)
Flora obtained a magic flower (Latin flos, plural flores, a masculine word) and tested it on a heifer who became fecund at once.
The others remain masculine mainly because Zamenhof did not establish a way to derive masculine words the way he did for feminine words.
Similar case is with the masculine words of the third declension - they are sometimes declined in the first declension (because singular nominative is the same).
The masculine words ending in -in, or, less commonly, in -ett, have plural itt (fiolin/fiolitt).
Some other imported words differ by grammatical gender, feminine words having an -a suffix and masculine words having a zero-suffix:
Akkadian has two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine, with many feminine forms generated from masculine words by adding an -at suffix.
Akkadian, unlike Arabic, has mainly regular plurals (i.e. no broken plurals), although some masculine words take feminine plurals.
Masculine words end with Aa, eg. Dada (grandfather) while feminine words end with i - Dadi (grandmother).
Critics such as Dale Spender and Veronica Zundel feel that deriving feminine from masculine words causes women to be either "linguistically excluded."
In such cases, proponents of gender-neutral language may instead focus on ensuring that feminine and masculine words exist for every job, and that they are treated with equal status.