Does the Greek language have genders for nouns like the romance languages do?
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at
1:52 am
Don't know if I'm asking this question right, but I mean do they assign things "maleness" or "femaleness" like in French, Spanish Portuguese, etc?
If so, what is the gender of pneuma, 'breath'?
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Yes, there are three genders in Greek, modern as well as ancient. Masculine, feminine and neutral. The final -a is not a feminine form, which is marked by the final -i. Pneuma is neutral. You can see that easily because articles are used in Greek, according to the cases of the declension: so "o" is the masculine article, "i" the feminine, "to" the neutral. "To pneuma" means neutral.
Yes: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
"pneuma" is neuter, at least in Koine.
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nouns, verbs and participles all have gender – masculine, feminine and neuter.
Pneuma is neuter, but "Pneuma Hagio" (the Holy Spirit) while neuter in Koine Greek does not necessarily transfer to an accurate description of God as neuter. God does not have gender as we understand gender….
yes.