Determining Gender

If a noun appears in isolation, the end of the word will give you some clues as to what gender the word is:

If a noun ends in:   -ης or -ας it’s probably masculine.
If it ends in:   or it’s probably feminine.
and if it ends in   -ο, -ι, or -μα it's probably neuter.

Of course, there are exceptions, and there are those words ending in -ος, which can be any gender.

Luckily for us, nouns don’t exist in isolation. In Greek, as in English, you'll almost always find a noun in company with an article...

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