If you're trying to learn Scottish Feminine which is also called Scots, check our courses about genders: Feminine and Masculine... to help you with your Scottish grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Scottish. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Scottish Feminine is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Scottish language. But first we need to know what the role of Feminine is in the structure of the grammar in Scottish.
Scottish feminine refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls or things considered feminine. The complement to feminine is masculine. Here are some examples:
| English Feminine | Scottish Feminine |
|---|---|
| Feminine | feminine |
| he is happy | he is canty |
| she is happy | she is canty |
| he is American | he is american |
| she is American | she is american |
| man | cheil |
| woman | hen |
| father | faither |
| mother | mammy |
| brother | brither |
| sister | sister |
| uncle | uncle |
| aunt | aunt |
| bull | bull |
| cow | coo |
| boy | loon |
| girl | lassie |
Notice the structure of the Feminine in Scottish.
Below is a list of objects, can you determine whether they're feminine, masculine or plural in Scottish? Memorizing this table will also help you add very useful and important words to your Scottish vocabulary.
| English Vocabulary | Scottish Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| objects | objects |
| bathroom | bathroom |
| bed | scratcher |
| bedroom | bedroom |
| ceiling | ceilin' |
| chair | chair |
| clothes | clase |
| coat | jeekit |
| cup | cup |
| desk | desk |
| dress | frock |
| floor | fluir |
| fork | fork |
| furniture | furniture |
| glass | glass |
| hat | hat |
| house | hoose |
| ink | ink |
| jacket | jaekit |
| kitchen | scullery |
| knife | chib |
| lamp | lamp |
| letter | letter |
| map | map |
| newspaper | newspaper |
| notebook | notebook |
| pants | keks |
| paper | pepper |
| pen | pen |
| pencil | pencil |
| pharmacy | pharmacy |
| picture | picture |
| plate | plate |
| refrigerator | refrigeratur |
| restaurant | restaurant |
| roof | roof |
| room | room |
| rug | rug |
| scissors | scissors |
| shampoo | shampoo |
| shirt | sark |
| shoes | sheen |
| soap | soap |
| socks | socks |
| spoon | spoon |
| table | table |
| toilet | lavvy |
| toothbrush | toothbrush |
| toothpaste | toothpaste |
| towel | towel |
| umbrella | brolly |
| underwear | underwear |
| wall | dyke |
| wallet | sporen |
| window | windae |
| telephone | telephain |
Feminine and Masculine have a very important role in Scottish. Once you're done with the Scots Feminine, you might want to check the rest of our Scottish lessons here: Learn Scottish. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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