So ... dig out the Cassell's dictionary and would ya believe you have it -- AND the entry has a suitable masculine adjectival example. Somehow that got sideways in my memory and since all those were buried in boxes for a few decades, and hardly in daily use, I got it stuck in my head wrong.
So ... dig out the Cassell's dictionary and would ya believe you have it -- AND the entry has a suitable masculine adjectival example. Somehow that got sideways in my memory and since all those were buried in boxes for a few decades, and hardly in daily use, I got it stuck in my head wrong.
Yeah, it's all very non-intuitive for those of us who are not used to (shriek) gendered languages.
If you want more horror-stories, you could check out the declension of words like 'turris'. Or even 'virus'.