Parts of speech and inflexion / Grammar

In Slovak, there are three grammatical genders of nouns – masculine, feminine and neuter. We distinguish between the genders not only for people, but also for things, animals, plants, etc. If you want to use a noun correctly, you must know its gender.

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
People:	`muž`	`žena`	`dieťa`
Animals:	`pes`	`mačka`	`šteňa`
Things:	`dom`	`kniha`	`auto`
Plants:	`strom`	`ruža`	`ginko`

Masculine: chlapec, strom, dom, lístok, autobus, vlak, hotel, pes, hokejista, stôl…
Feminine: stanica, ulica, kniha, ruža, ruka, noha, hlava, skriňa, izba, mačka, ceruzka, reštaurácia, tvár, pieseň…
Neuter: mesto, dievča, auto, parkovisko, srdce, okno, centrum, pero, lietadlo, letisko…