00:00I will give you four nouns and you have to tell me either they are male or female.
00:06Boy, girl, baby and book.
00:12The first and second are straightforward.
00:15Boy is a male and girl is a female.
00:19Now, what about baby?
00:20Is it a male or female?
00:23It can be both, right?
00:25So, it can be either a male or female.
00:30What about a book?
00:31Is it a male or female?
00:33It is neither a male nor a female.
00:36So, in this way, each of them is represented by a different gender.
00:42Boy comes under masculine gender.
00:45Girl comes under feminine gender.
00:48Baby comes under common gender.
00:51Hang, the book comes under neuter gender.
00:55So, based on this classification, there are four types of gender.
01:00Number one, masculine gender.
01:01Number two, feminine gender.
01:04Number three, common gender.
01:06And number four, neuter gender.
01:09Living beings of male sex comes under masculine gender.
01:14For example, uncle, lion, prince, cock.
01:25Living beings with female sex comes under feminine gender.
01:30For example, aunt, lioness, princess, hen.
01:40Living beings of either male or female sex comes under common gender.
01:46For example, parent, child, friend, cousin.
01:57Things that have neither male nor female sex comes under neuter gender.
02:03For example, book, pan, ball, tree.
02:11One point to note about neuter gender is that objects without life are often personified or described as if they
02:22were living beings.
02:22In this case, we regard them as males or females.
02:29The masculine gender is often applied to objects remarkable for strength and violence.
02:36As in, the sun, summer, winter, time.
02:41For example, the sun shares his beams on rich and poor alike.
02:48Notice the word his which is used to refer the sun.
02:54The feminine gender is sometimes applied to objects remarkable for beauty, gentleness and gracefulness.
03:02For example, the moon has hidden her face behind a cloud.
03:15Here, we have used her as a feminine word for the moon.
03:21Mostly, you will see this type of sentences in poetry only.
03:29Now, let's learn the ways to convert a masculine gender to a feminine gender.
03:35There are three ways to convert a masculine gender to feminine.
03:41Number one, by using an entirely different word.
03:45Some of the examples of it could be husband, wife, horse, mare, buck, doe, bull, cow, nephew, niece.
04:02So, this is the first way.
04:03The second way is by adding a syllable.
04:06Like, e-s-s, i-n-e, t-r-i-x, a, and likewise.
04:14For example, author, autrice.
04:19Poet, poetess.
04:22Hero, heroine.
04:24Conductor, conductress.
04:30Testator, testapix.
04:31So, in this way, we have used different syllables to get the feminine gender for the masculine gender.
04:38So, this is the second way.
04:40The last way is by placing a word before or after.
04:46For example, grandfather, grandmother.
04:49Great uncle, great aunt.
04:53Peacock, pehan.
04:55Salesman, saleswoman.
04:58Washerman, washerwoman.
05:01So, this is the third way in which we use a word before or after a word to convert a
05:09masculine gender to feminine gender.
05:11So, these are the three ways to convert a masculine gender to feminine gender.
05:16Again, I will repeat.
05:17First is by using an entirely different word.
05:21Number two, by adding syllables like e-s-s, i-n-e, t-r-i-x, a, etc.
05:29Hang three by placing a word before or after the word.
05:35So, in this way, we can convert a masculine gender to feminine gender.
05:39Now, let me give you an exercise to practice.
05:43Convert the following masculine gender to feminine gender.
05:48The hint is also given.
05:49First, son.
05:51Second, waiter.
05:53Third, milkman.
05:55Pause the video and message me your answers in the comment section.
06:00I hope you would have given the answers in the comment section.
06:05That's all in this video.
06:06Let's quickly revise what we learned in this lesson.
06:10First, we understood the types of gender nouns.
06:14There are four types of gender based on the male and female species.
06:20Number one, living beings of male sex comes under masculine gender.
06:25Number two, living beings with female sex comes under feminine gender.
06:30Number three, living beings with either male or female sex comes under common gender.
06:37Number four, things that have neither male nor female sex comes under neuter gender.
06:45Then, we learned the three ways to convert a masculine gender into a feminine gender.
06:52Number one, by using an entirely different word.
06:56Number two, by adding a syllable.
06:59And number three, by placing a word before or after.
07:04Finally, I gave you an exercise to practice.
07:07The answers are on your screen now.
07:16Thank you for watching the video.
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07:21We will meet in the next video.
07:23Till then, goodbye.
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