Yonah Mishael,
Thank you for responding... I thought as much. What does it mean
when a word is 'feminine' or 'masculine'?
I assume you know something about Greek, right? Your username is Greek. It's the word χάρις, which is feminine.
Most languages in the world have what's called "grammatical gender". All nouns belong to one of the genders. In Greek there are three - masculine (like ὁ οἶκος
ho oikos "the house"), feminine (like ἡ οἰκία
he oikia "the house") and neuter (like τὸ ὄνομα
to onoma "the name"). In Hebrew there is only masculine (like שולחן
shulchan "table") and feminine (like כוס
kos "cup").
With grammatical gender, there's no rhyme or reason. It's just up to the language itself. In Spanish, for example, the word for "table" is
mesa, which is feminine. In German, the word for "table" is
Tisch, which is masculine. In Hebrew, the word for "table" is שולחן
shulchan, which is masculine. In Greek, the word for "table" is τράπεζα
trapedza, which is feminine. You can't know a word's gender without learning the language and its rules for gender marking.
English doesn't really have grammatical gender. Anything that isn't naturally gender-identified is just classified as neuter - "it".
