Adjectives for two nouns of different gender
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:59 pm
According to Wheelock, the latin for "The boy and girl are good" has "good" in the masculine. (Puer et puella sunt boni) But according to Bessimus's answer key, "Filiae et filii virorum et feminarum magnArum..." for "The daughters and sons of great men and women... etc." So is it, use whatever gender for the adjective as long as it's one of the genders of the two nouns it describes or is it like Spanish, where the plural adjective for nouns of mixed genders is masculine?