مَبادِئُ نَحْوِيَّةٌ: المُذَكَّرُ والمُؤَنَّثُ 1/ 2Basic Grammar

The gender

There are two genders for the الاسْمُ " (noun) in Arabic: the masculine and the feminine. The neutral does not exist in Arabic.

The feminine of a noun can be:

- the letter : ة at the end of the noun Ex. معلمـة (a female teacher) فاطمـة (Fatima), شجرة (a tree)

- the letters ا ـ اء ـ ى.  at the end of the noun such as: سلمـى (Salma)،صحراء(sahara) ،  خضراء (green)

- some feminine nouns do not have a specific mark like:  (mother) أُمّ (Hind) هِنْد (the earth) أَرْض

- The ة at the end of the feminine nouns is pronounced ه if the speaker stops at it.

There are some exceptions that will presented with the more advanced levels.

Note that the category  الِاسْمُ that we translate here as "noun"  is a general category which includes every word that is not a verb or a particle.