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: | -α or -η | 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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