Talk:חתול

This article contained non-standard formatting and context but raises some interesting questions:

Where do the feminine, plural, and feminine plural forms of Hebrew nouns belong?

Normally I put the plural on the line we use for headword, gender, romanization. For Hebrew I also use this line to show where the vowel points go. In this case I know the vowel points for the singular but not for the plural (which is a minor point).

Normally I put feminine forms on a separate page linked via "Related terms" and its own plural form goes there.

In the case of "cat" I guess the appropriate masculine forms should also go in the translations sections of "tomcat" and "tom". The feminine forms should also go under the correct sense of "she".

So I'm assuming the correct he->en translations to put on this page are "cat" (generic); "tomcat" and "tom" (spcifically male)

The big question I'd like to explore is whether the Hebrew feminine forms might also belong here as the original author did. And what about other languages? It might depend on how each language treats grammatical gender, real gender, and possibly animate vs. inanimate nouns.

&mdash; Hippietrail 02:12, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)