Definition
Feminine gender is a grammatical gender that
- marks nouns that have human or animal female referents, and
- often marks nouns that have referents that do not carry distinctions of sex.
Examples
(Spanish)
- la mujer ‘the woman’
- la gallina ‘the hen’
- la mesa ‘the table’
Sources 2
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 93
- Mish 1991, 456