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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'
Its a language rule in many of the romance languages. Isn't that right? corect me if i'm wrong
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Mostly.
In Latin, the most common feminine ending is the letter
a. The plural ending is
ae. The most common masculine ending is
us. The plural ending is
i. A mixed male-and-female group gets the masculine ending. (All of this is nominative case, for you linguistic types.)
Most Romance languages have inherited similar endings. In French, though, the feminine is usually denoted with the letter
e, rather than
a. (Those crazy French
)