All nouns in Spanish have a gender. They are either masculine or they are feminine. Every noun is either one or the other and you just have to learn them. But there are some clues. Un problema is a ...

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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. If you die in some states and your son is appointed to handle your estate, he is the “executor.” If it’s your daughter ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

I feel your pain, Dazed. Learning a new language is difficult, especially when it comes to grammar — I still don’t get the difference between the comparatives “like” and “such as,” and my parents ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many languages give gender to their nouns, but not English, though that was not always the case. Until about the 1200s, English ...