10 words that can be of different kinds

1. Muskrat

The name of this animal can be usedReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU both feminine and masculine. Although Maya Zarva's dictionary "Russian word stress", which is aimed at media workers, recommends the feminine gender.

2. Psalter

Lexemes ending in "b" are often difficult. Dictionaries speakReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RUthat the "psalter" can be both feminine and masculine. However, some of them (for example, Kuznetsov's “Big Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language”) give the label “colloquial” next to the masculine gender.

3. Shutter / shutter

"Shutters" in the singular areReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU and "shutter" and "shutter". Accordingly, in genitive plural, two options are possible: "shutters" and "shutters".

4. Spasm / spasm

This word can also beReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU both masculine and feminine.

5. Banknote / banknote

Another language unit for whichReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU

double use. The masculine variant seems quite logical, if we remember that this is an English banknote that came to us. However, in Russian, the word got the ending "a".

6. Aviary / aviary

As the name of the fenced-in mesh area for keeping animals and birdsReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU both "aviary" and "aviary" are equal options.

7. Youngsters / youngsters

More popular noun "Youngster", which can be used in both the feminine and masculine genders. However, there isReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU - Russian for all and the form of "youngsters", which is much less common.

8. Key / keys

Now, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the word is used in the feminine gender, but there isReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU and an obsolete version of "keys". In the 17th century, it was borrowed «Etymological online dictionary of the Russian language "Shanskiy N. M. Polish klawisz, which goes back to the Latin clavis - "key" (to the valve of an organ pipe).

9. Burr / Burr

Dictionaries speakReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RUthat both options are possible - both masculine and feminine.

10. Esperanto

The phonetic aspect allows this word to be attributed to the neuter gender, like many other lexemes ending in "o". However, the generic "language" influenced. As a result, "Esperanto" canReference and information portal GRAMOTA.RU be both neuter and masculine.