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Old 09-19-2003, 05:52 PM
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Originally posted by Designergal3
For anyone who's taken a foreign language like Spanish or Italian & i'm assuming French too, all the adjectives for feminine nouns usually end with an a too... ie una chica buena is 'a good girl' and un chico bueno is 'a good boy'
Yup, the francais does it as well.

German has it as well: a male Canadian is kanadien and a female Canadian is a kanadierin.

Russian does it too, a married couple will be Mr. Federov and Mr. Federova. (the "a" on the end feminizes her surname, hence Anna Kournikova)
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