naissugu — illustration of feminine gender

naissugu

[ˈnɑissuku]

feminine gender

Forms

Forms
CaseSingularPlural
Nominativenaissugunaissood
Genitivenaissoonaissugude
Partitivenaissugunaissugusid
Illativenaissukkunaissugudesse
Inessivenaissoosnaissugudes
Elativenaissoostnaissugudest
Allativenaissoolenaissugudele
Adessivenaissoolnaissugudel
Ablativenaissooltnaissugudelt
Translativenaissooksnaissugudeks
Terminativenaissooninaissugudeni
Essivenaissoonanaissugudena
Comitativenaissooganaissugudega

Examples

Naissugu on üks grammatiline sugu.

The feminine is one of the grammatical genders.

Vene keeles on see sõna naissoost.

In Russian, this word is feminine.

Common combinations

naissoo esindaja

female representative

naissoo olemus

the nature of the female sex

naissugu ja meessugu

female and male

Related words

In Estonian

keele üks grammatilisi sugusid (nt indoeuroopa keeltes)

Definitions, examples and word forms are partly based on the EKI Combined Dictionary (Eesti Keele Instituut, Sõnaveeb), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Dictio has edited and added to them. Sources and licenses

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