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Chapter 3: Adjectives: Gender, Agreement, Neuters, and Vocabulary Format

Chapter 3: Adjectives: Gender, Agreement, Neuters, and Vocabulary Format

pp. 24-28

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, University of Reading
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In Latin, all nouns have a gender; that is, every noun is inherently masculine, feminine, or neuter. Words for male humans are normally masculine and words for female humans are normally feminine, but words for things can belong to any of the three genders. Gender is important because adjectives in Latin assume the same gender as the nouns they modify; often you cannot tell which noun an adjective goes with unless you know the genders of the nouns in the sentence.

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