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  Gender of Nouns: Part I

A noun is a word used to denote a person, place, thing, or idea.

Person: John, girl, dentist
Place: garden, university, Venezuela
Thing: book, car, tomato
Idea: liberty, despair, intelligence

In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine.

Masculine	Feminine
el chico boy	la chica girl
el jardín garden	la universidad university
el libro book	la revista magazine
el miedo fear	la libertad liberty

The idea that nouns have gender seems perfectly natural when the noun stands for a living creature. This is because in English, living creatures often have different names, depending upon whether they are male or female.

Masculine	Feminine
man	woman
tiger	tigress
aviator	aviatrix