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Grammatical gender is distinct fom natural gender as it relates to human beings. Therefore, a noun's grammatical
‘gender does not necessarily convey that it possesses either masculine or feminine attributes or connotations. Even
inanimate objects have a grammatical gender in Hindi, andi is particularly in these cases that grammatical gender
‘assignment may contrast with our perception ofthe meaning or attributes ofthe noun.
‘So what does grammatical gender have to do with Hind! verbs and why concern ourselves with grammatical gender in
Hindi? Recall from tenses in hindi that transitive verbs in the past simple, present perfect, and past perfect tenses in
Hind’ use the at construction for verb conjugation and ifthe verb has a direct object, the verb must agree with the object
In bath number and gender. we must conjugate the verb to agree with its object in these scenarios, we must fst lear
the gender of that object, i. the noun gender In addition, noun gender in Hindi will infuence how we infect the noun
into its plural fam. Generally speaking, you can assess that nouns ending with 3 are masculine wile nouns ending
with $ are feminine, but there are exceptions to this rule and that is why it is wise to simply memorize the grammatical
‘gender in Hindi of fequently used nouns. Learn the gender ofthe flowing Hind! nouns and practice incorporating them
Into your conversations. Do you know them by heart?
Note that the grammatical gender listed below for each noun refers to the noun's inherent grammatical gender in Hindi.
But what if, for example, we want to distinguish between a male and a female cat? Does grammatical gender in Hindi
allow for this distinction? The answer is yes my fiend When referring to animate beings, we can derive a gender-
contrast, Hindi nouns identiffing inanimate beings do not necessitate such gender distinctions because inanimate
beings do not possess a natural gender of course!
HINDI GRAMMATICAL GENDER LOOKUP.
People Animals Plants Places Objects Activities Abstractions
English Noun Hindi Transliteration Hindi Script Grammatical Gender
People
acter ebhinetaa afta masculine
author lekhak aa masculine
astronaut antariksha yeatree sate art masculine
brother bhaaee ame masculine
businessmen wavsaayee exert masculine
chef resolyea vier masculine
daughter betee aa feminine
engineer ebhiyantea _sfitiar masculine
father . pitaa far masculine .