Nōnne iēiūnī erimus, sī nihil ante versperum gustābimus? (Won’t we be hungry if we eat nothing before evening?)
I think iēiūnī is nominative masculine plural. If that’s correct, is it because the speaker and the whole group making up the “we” of the sentence is male?
If the speaker and group were all female, would the sentence start, Nōnne iēiūnae erimus…
If it were a mixed group would it start Nōnne iēiūna erimus…
I know these are basic questions, but this text is pretty thin on explanation, I’m working alone and don’t have anyone else to ask. Thanks for your help.
To address your questions specifically, just expanding bedware’s reply:
The group might be all male but could be mixed.
Yes, if all were female it would be ieiunae
No if the group were mixed it would be ieiuni
It’s true that grammatical gender and biological gender sometimes don’t overlap but the neuter is never used for something that is neither all-one nor all-the-other - as is common in many languages the masculine is the default.