Why there is no “feminine” nor “masculine” for nouns in English?
There used to be grammatical genders in Old English (or Anglo-Saxon, as it is also known). In fact, it had three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. The word for ‘door’ was duru and it was feminine, as in French; the word for ‘field’ was feld and was masculine; the word for ‘ship’ was scip and was neuter. So ‘that big door’ would be seo greatu duru; ‘that big field’ would be se great feld and ‘that big ship’ would be thæt great scip. However, languages evolve and English is no exception; over the centuries, English gradually lost its grammatical genders. That doesn’t mean that English has become easier for foreigners to learn – it is not an easy language to learn, especially when you consider the very large number of phrasal verbs, the huge vocabulary, with the many overlapping meanings and so on. French too is evolving. After all, it is derived from Latin, which had three genders. And most of the languages that are derived from French, such Morisiê (Mauritius creole) have no gram
