Chapter 2: Gender and Adjectives

• Both nouns and adjectives have gender.  There are three possible genders: Masculine, Feminine and Neuter.  It is important to memorize the gender of every noun and adjective in addition to their meaning.
  
  
• The gender of Latin words has nothing to do with sex or sexuality.  Words that one might assume are masculine actually have a feminine gender.  "Fatherland" is a feminine noun, for example.
  
  
• The reason why it is important to memorize the gender of nouns and adjectives is because they must agree in a sentence.