Czech distinguishes three genders—masculine, feminine, and neuter—and the masculine gender is subdivided into animate and inanimate. With few exceptions, feminine nouns in the nominative case end in -a, -e, or -ost; neuter nouns in -o, -e, or -í, and masculine nouns in a consonant. Adjectives agree in gender and animacy (for masculine nouns in the accusative or genitive singular and the nominative plural) with the nouns they modify. The main effect of gender in Czech is the difference in noun and adjective declension, but other effects include past-tense verb endings: for example, dělal (he did, or made); dělala (she did, or made) and dělalo (it did, or made). COUNT 5
QSN1 How many genders does Czech distinguish? ANS1 three QSN2 What categories is the masculine gender in Czech divided into? ANS2 animate and inanimate QSN3 What do Czech adjectives agree with in the nouns they modify? ANS3 gender and animacy QSN4 What does gender also affect in Czech? ANS4 past-tense verb endings QSN5 What is the main effect of gender in Czech? ANS5 difference in noun and adjective declension