Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Macedonian Noun Templates/reply (7)

That's a bit unexpected. Etymologically, the definite article is a separate word, so just like you have in Spanish la mano (feminine word that looks masculine), I would have expected that feminine or neuter-looking words would still take the masculine definite article. But I guess that the Macedonian articles are no longer "felt" as separate words with their own gender anymore, but simply endings that must match the noun in some kind of pattern.

I think for these exceptional nouns we would need separate templates, because of the irregularities you mentioned.