Grammatical
Gender in Welsh
|
Bob Morris Jones
E-mail: bmj@aber.ac.uk
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masculine
only |
68.50%
|
|
feminine
only |
29.00%
|
|
masculine/feminine
|
2.05%
|
|
masculine
or feminine |
0.35%
|
|
masculine/feminine
or masculine |
0.06%
|
|
masculine/feminine
or feminine |
0.03%
|
|
masculine/feminine
or feminine or masculine |
0.01%
|
10259 is the total of nouns on which the percentages
are based.
To become familiar with the grammatical
gender of nouns in Welsh, a practical approach is to learn feminine-only nouns
and mixed-gender nouns. If a noun does not occur in these groups, it can be taken
for granted that it is masculine.