What does feminine mean?
Word: Feminine
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Feminine means having qualities that people have traditionally linked with women or girls. In grammar, feminine is the gender of words such as lioness, actress and queen.
Synonyms: womanly, ladylike
How do you spell feminine?
Syllables: fem - i - nine
Tricky part: The vowel after the m is i, not e: femenine is the usual slip.
Watch out for: femenine, femanine
Memory tip: Read just the vowels of feminine: e, i, i, e. The two i's sit in the middle, held by an e on each side like books between bookends.
Feminine in a sentence
Example 1: In Hindi, the word for river, nadi, is feminine.
Example 2: The old palace has delicate, feminine carvings of flowers and vines.
Example 3: Our grammar exercise asked us to write the feminine form of tiger, lion and emperor.
Fun Fact
In Hindi every noun has a gender, even objects: mez, a table, is feminine, so you say mez badi hai, not mez bada hai.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
femminine
a) f
b) e
c) n
d) m
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d) m. Fem has one m before the i.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
mnnifiee
a) femininity
b) feminism
c) feminine
d) famine
Show answer
c) feminine. Famine is two letters short, feminism ends in an s the jumble lacks, and femininity is longer still.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
feminine
a) graceful
b) gentle
c) masculine
d) delicate
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c) masculine. In grammar the masculine gender is the opposite of the feminine.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) possesive
b) pronoun
c) singular
d) feminine
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a) possesive. Possessive has two pairs of s, and possesive has only one pair.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which sentence uses feminine correctly?
a) Boy is the feminine form of girl.
b) Uncle is the feminine form of aunt.
c) King is the feminine form of queen.
d) Queen is the feminine form of king.
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d) Queen is the feminine form of king.
2. The feminine form of "nephew" is ____.
a) daughter
b) cousin
c) aunt
d) niece
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d) niece
