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http://www.wordreference.com
http://dle.rae.es/?id=N2tsDWF (This is the RAEs dictionary, I
looked up the word leche for you but you can type any other
word in the bar that is at the top of the site and then you just have
to click consultar).
2. Tips
a. Gender according to the ending or meaning
Masculine nouns usually are:
The ones ending in o, although there are some male nouns
ending with other vowels, such as a or e.
Save for some exceptions, the words ending with a without
accent, -d, -z, and some other suffixes (-cin, -sin, -umbre, -tis),
words ending with other sounds and compound forms are
masculine.
Names of rivers, mountains, volcanoes, isthmus, canals: el Nilo, el
Amazonas, el Himalaya, el Aneto, el Etna.
Names of cyclones, including hurricanes, typhoons and tropical
storms: el Gustav, el Hanna.
Names of days of the week and months: un agosto muy fro, el
hermoso mayo.
Most of the winds (except brisa and tramontana)
Musical notes: el la, el fa bemol
Augmentatives ending in on applied to objects, even if they come
from a female noun: el mesn (which comes from la mesa), el
noticin (coming from la noticia)
Magazine names: el Semana, el Clara, etc.
Cardinal points: el norte, el sur, el este, el oeste.
Numbers: el uno, el dos, el tres, etc.
Feminine nouns usually are:
The ones ending in a, although there are some female nouns
ending with other vowels, such as o or e.
Save for some exceptions, the words ending with a without
accent, -d, -z, and some other suffixes (-cin, -sin, -umbre, -tis),
words ending with other sounds and compound forms are
masculine.
Letters: la o, la hache.
Also, the following table shows frequent cases in irregular genders BUT
BE CAREFUL because there are LOTS of exceptions and special cases.
Masculino
Femenino
Ejemplos
-o
-a
el abogado, la abogada
-e
-ina
el hroe, la herona
consonante
consonante + -ina
el zar, la zarina
-o
-esa
-e
-a
el dependiente, la dependienta
-e
-esa
consonante
consonante + -a
consonante
consonante + -esa
-tor
-triz
motor, motriz
Furthermore, aside from male and female nouns, there are also
NEUTRAL NOUNS, and these are the ones that refer to abstract
concepts, things that are not real: lo bueno, lo malo, lo feo, lo bonito (the
good, the bad, the ugly, the pretty).
GRAMMATICAL GENDER
The following article shows detailed explanation about most (if
not all) of the cases related to grammatical gender.
1. GENDER: Spanish nouns can be male or female. When the noun
designates animated objects, usually there will be a specific form for
each grammatical gender according to the biological distinction between
genders, either by using desinences or distinctive gender suffixes that
are added to a stem, such as in gato/gata, profesor/profesora,
nene/nena, conde/condesa, zar/zarina. Also, this distinction can be made
by using words with different stems according to the referents gender
(this is called heteronimia), such as in hombre/mujer, caballo/yegua,
yerno/nuera. However, there are several cases in which there is only one
valid form used to refer to objects from one or another gender: that is
the case of common nouns in terms of gender (sustantivos comunes
en cuanto al gnero) and epicene nouns (sustantivos epicenos). If
the nouns referent is an inanimate object, usually it is either only male
(EL da, EL csped, EL cuadro) or only female (LA mesa, LA pared, LA
regla), though there is a group of nouns that have both genders, and
these are traditionally called ambiguous nouns in terms of gender
(sustantivos ambiguous en cuanto al gnero).
Femenino
Ejemplos
-a
-a
el/la periodista
-e
-e
el/la vidente
-i
-i
el/la marroqu
-o
-o
el/la contralto
-u
-u
el/la gur
Examples:
La testigo fue muy clara en su relato.
El testigo fue muy claro en su relato.
b). Epicene Nouns (Sustantivos epicenos). Those which, whilst
designating animate objects, have a unique form that corresponds to
only one grammatical gender and that is used to refer to individuals
from one gender or another indistinctly. In this case, grammatical gender
is independent of the referents sex. There are male epicenes (EL
personaje, EL vstago, EL tiburn, EL lince) and female epicenes (LA
persona, LA vctima, LA hormiga, LA perdiz). The concordance must be
established according to the epicene nouns grammatical gender, and
not according to the referents sex; thus, you should say La vctima, un