Definition
Masculine gender is a grammatical gender that:
- marks nouns having human or animal male referents
- often marks nouns having referents that do not have distinctions of sex
Examples
(Spanish)
- el hombre ‘the man’
- el gallino ‘the rooster’
- el libro ‘the book’
Sources 2
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 93
- Mish 1991, 730