"Our small mouse is drinking water."
Translation:Nasza mała mysz pije wodę.
January 10, 2016
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Vengir
79
„Mysz” is an exception of sorts. The normal rules might suggest it's a masculine noun, while it really is a feminine one.
vytah
1351
According to the terminology I used here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/12262354 the rule is "if it's hard, then it's definitely masculine, if soft or mixed – it depends". As I wrote there, -sz is mixed (phonetically hard, but grammatically behaves as if it was soft – because it used to be), so it can end a feminine noun.
Vengir
79
It's not just that. If the noun ends with „ć”, it's still feminine by rule. „Mysz” seems just like an exception.
vytah
1351
Masculine: gość, liść
-ć is probably the only consonant that is way more likely to end a feminine noun that a masculine one.