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All nouns in Spanish are either masculine or feminine in gender, except for one or two nouns of undecided gender. There are no Spanish nouns of neuter gender, but there are some neuter pronouns: see Chapter 7.

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Butt, J., Benjamin, C. (1994). Gender of nouns. In: A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8368-4_1

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