"Odkud je ta turistka?"

Translation: Where is the tourist from?

[butterfly604479]

I've just answered this as a "Select the missing word" - and it offered me "turista" and "turistka" as my options. As far as my researches so far go - turista seems to be tourist (m) and turistka is tourist (f).

I don't really understand how a male tourist gets to end in a, but my main question is how I deduce that turistka is the correct answer rather than turista... Is it that it has to agree with "ta"?

But as far as I can remember every masculine noun I've come across so far has ended in a consonant (even down to a neuter "to auto" becoming a masculine "ten automobil" when it gained its end consonant), so "ten turista" seems as though it would be very weird. Am I missing something or just barking up the wrong tree?!

[VladaFu]

Yes, it has to agree with ta. The "je" tells you that it is singular. Once you know that "ta" tells you it is feminine.

There is a whole masculine paradigm ending with -a (in textbooks it is "předseda" - a chairperson). There is another vowel ending paradigm "soudce" (a judge). And nouns of soft adjective origins end with -í (mluvčí - a spokesperson).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_declension#Masculine_animate

[butterfly604479]

Excellent answer, thank you. (Though I am sad to hear there are masculine nouns with vowel-endings - I thought that was maybe one hard-and-fast rule to count on - but at least now that I know about them, I can be on the lookout!)