European Journal of English Language Teaching ISSN: 2501-7136 ISSN-L: 2501-7136 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu 10.5281/zenodo.162424 Volume 1│Issue 2│2016 THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS Shkelqim Millaku1i, Xhevahire Topanica2 Prof. Asoc. Dr., Faculty of Philology, 1 University of Prizren, Prizren, Kosova Mr. sc., University of Prizren, Prizren, Kosova 2 Abstract: In Albanian and English we have three kinds of gender: masculine, feminine and neuter. In Albanian language we have this concept for gender: “Gjinia është një nga kategoritë gramatikore më karakteristikë për emrat në gjuhën shqipe. Nga natyra e saj, ajo dallohet nga kategoritë e tjera të emrit, nga numri, rasa dhe nga kategoritë e shquarsisë dhe të pashquarsisë, sepse i kundërvihet mashkullore-femërore dhe asnjanëse...”ii, it’s same and with English: “a grouping of nouns and pronouns into classes’ masculine, feminine and neuter”iii. The gender can show and function in both of numbers singular and plural. The nouns of masculine, feminine can ends with consonants or vowels. The gender (definite) of English are augmented with articles. It can show before the noun, pronoun that can substituted with pronoun /ai, ajo – he, she / or ky, kjo, ai, ajo – it (father, man, son, boy, Tom, brother, Mr. John, /he/). The noun and pronoun can have the gender but the adjective or verb cannot have. Keywords: gender, countable and uncountable, singular, plural, nouns 1. The masculine nouns The masculine nouns on Albanian usually ending with the consonant e.g. ∑ student, hotel, ballkon, film, tren, lis, mal, gur etc., or with vowels e.g. ∑ ∑ ii iii ë: djalë, burrë, djathë, lumë, Kolë, Dedë etc. i: ulli, flori, qiri, shiri etc. Fatmir Agallari, Gramatika e gjuhës shqipe, Tiranë, 2002, p.88. A S Hornby, Christina Ruse, Oxford student’s dictionary of current English, New York, 2001, p. 263. Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved Published by Open Access Publishing Group ©2015. 40 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ e: pe, dre, dhe etc. u: dru, kërceu, hu etc. a: pasha, baba, aga etc. ua: thua, përrua, krua (njeri-u, veri-u, baba-i, atdhe-u, dru - druri, sy - syri, zë zëri) etc. The English has the same structure of masculine nouns with Albanian, it can used with consonants or vowels e.g. father, uncle, brother, nephew, duke, god, hero, friend, student (common), boyfriend, male student etc. In both of languages the nouns are used in both numbers. The plural used by means of suffixes or changes in stem sounds. In Albanian language and English the most common methods of plural wordformation in by adding a plural suffix to the singular form. The nouns usually ending with consonant in the indefinite form or in definite with /-i, -u/ e.g. ∑ emër-i, gur-i, qytet-iiv, mik-u, shok-u, krua-kroi, përrua-përroi, mure – walls, lisa – oaks, burra – men, desh – rams, net – nights, miq – friends, zogj – birds, brigje – hills, atë – fathers etc. The definite nouns in English language usually make the article /the/ and it is contrast with Albanian because the definite nouns in Albanian are usually the suffix e.g. ∑ djalë – djali – boy - the boy, libër – libri – book – the book. The definite nouns between Albanian and English are the full contrast because English has /the/ article that can show before the noun, so Albanian has definite articles or ends (suffixes) –i, -u, -a, -tëv. Both of languages can make the plural nouns. It can use with suffixes. The formation of the plural of masculine nouns is quite complex and usually can formation with suffixation. The Albanian language has a lot of suffixes (more than 140) that are productive for too creative the new plural nouns e.g. The plural is also formed with –e. With this suffixes usually can creative or found the abstract nouns. All the nouns that ending with suffix –im, as well as borrowed words that end with –ion, -um, take –e, in or in the plural e.g. ∑ aksione – aksions, leksione – lectures, albume – albums, stadiume – stadiums, simpoziume – symposiums, vendime – decisions, mendime – thoughts, studim-e, qytet-e – cities, , seminar-e, hotel-e, kat-e – floors, document-e – documents, tunel-e – tunnels, kanal-e – canals, shtete – states, katunde – villages, vende – place, elemente – elements, ideale – ideals, hotele – hotels, tunele – tunnels, zakone – customs, motive – motives, sheshe – fields etc. iv v Shkelqim Millaku, 2016, The gender, Turqi, p.2 Shkelqim Millaku, 2016, The function of nuon phrases (...), Wien, p. 116. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 41 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS ∑ In Albanian language the plural is also formed with –a e.g. telefon-a, gjel-a, krimb-a, dema – bulls’, trupa – bodies, pëllumba – pigeons’, topa – balls etc. ∑ The plural is also formed with –ë e.g. shok-ë, anëtar-ë, doktor-ë, dhëmbë, lek-ë, artist-ë, arsimtar-ë – educators, formular-ë – forms, artist-ë – artists, punëtor-ë – worker, studentë – students, drur-ë – trees, fshatar-ë – villagers, beqarë – bachelors, berberë – berbers, doctorë – doctorës, policë - policemen etc. “Me sy të mbyllur doktor Gurametoja priste vendimin.”vi ∑ a: gjel-a, telefona, derra, dema – bulls, qingja – lambs, tipa – types, trupa – bodies, motora – motors, trëndafila – roses, rripa – slopes, trupa – bodies, ∑ bilbila – whistles, emra – names, numra – numbers etc. e: qytet-e, hotel-e, seminar-e, pus-e, vende – place’, kate – floors’, palate – apartements’, festivale – festivals’, male – mountains’, hotele – hotels’, sheshe ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ – fields’, motive – motives’. nj: bari-nj, kushëri-nj, ari-nj, gjuhnjë – knees’, thonj – fingernails’, langonj – hounds’ etc. enj: lumë –lumenj – rivers’, lëmë-lëmenj, përrua- përrenje – brooks’, budallenj – fools’, maskarenj – knaves etc. inj: shkëmb-shkëmbinj – rocks, drapërinj – sickles, gishtërinj - snakes, shkopshokpinj, zotër-zotrinj, ari-nj, gju-nj, hero-nj etc. ër: prindër - parents, vëllezër – brothers, robber - captives, mbretër – kings, nipër – nephews etc. The plural of some nouns is marked only by a change in the stem vowel, usually from /a/ or /e/, or sometimes opposite of them e.g. ∑ a/e: dash (ram)-desh, cjap (billy)-cjep, ka (ox) – qe, gardh (fence) – gjerdhe etc. There are in Albanian three sub-types of the plural type formed by the politicization of the velar consonant g and /k/ into /gj/ and /q/ e.g. ∑ mik-miq (friends), bujk-bujq – farmer, peshk – peshq – fishes, cak-caqe - limit, bllok – blloqe – block, tog, togje – pile, treg – trgje – market, park – parqe – park, varg – vargje – rangs, zog- zogj, murg-murgj, breg-brigje - hills, shteg – shtigje – pass. It’s contrast with English. Both of languages have regular and irregular noun forms for to creative plural. English language has not the same form with Albanian because in English we have the vi Ismail Kadare, Darkë e gabuar, Tiranë, 2008, p.50. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 42 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS suffixes –s, -es for to creative the plural nouns boy - boys, dog - dogs, bus - buses, name – names or irregular forms man - men, woman - women, tooth – teeth etc. It’s contrast between English and Albanian. The same forms in both of languages are for the regular and irregular nouns. 2. The feminine nouns The Albanian language has a lot of feminine nouns that ending with vowel or consonant and the suffixes is the most usual process of formation plural forms. The most productive suffixes are –a, -ra etc. The following nouns are in plural (with the suffixes) e.g. ∑ fusha – fields, lodra – games, mjegulla – fogs, flutura – butterfly, motra sisters etc. The feminine nouns in Albanian language usually can make the suffixes and the most productive are: -ë, -e, -i, -a, -o, ël, ër, -eshë, -ë, -ushë, -icë, onjë etc., for example: ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ ë -mollë, nënë, vajzë, rrobë, detyrë, dhomë-a, dorë-a, kokë-a, gjuhë-a etc. e: lule, nuse, faqe, fitore etc. i: dituri, teori, gjini, fotografi, malësi, bukuri etc. a: kinema, kala, para, hua etc. ß ß -o: depo, dado, pallto, kosto, radio etc. or zemër, vegël, femër, këmbëz, vetulla. -ël-, -ër, -e si vegël-a, motër-a, lule-ja, lodhje-ja. e, -eshë, -ë, -ushë, -icë, onjë e.g: gjysh-e, mik-e, ministër-e, doktor-ersh, plakëë, zonjë, arushë. The English language can make the feminine nouns with root of male so it can get the suffixes –ess e.g. Masculine Feminine actor actress master mistress heir heiress lion lioness poet poetessvii etc. vii Shkelqim Millaku, 2011, Studime gjuhësore I, Academia.edu, p.65-107. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 43 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS Both of languages have regular and irregular plural form of nouns or in English we have some forms e.g. ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ /–s, es/; bus - buses, house - houses, prize - prizes, brush - brushes, punch punches, thing - things, dog - dogs, day - days, boy – boys. /-y - i/; lady - ladies, story - stories, army - armies, country - countries, fly - flies. /-y/; day-days, play-plays, tray-trays, key-keys, boy-boys, toy-toys. /-s/; truth - truths, wreath - wreaths, mouth-mouths, path-paths. Irregular plural nouns: zero - zeroes or zeros, commando - commandoes or commandos, man - men, woman - women, mouse – mice, life-lives, wolf-wolves, knife - knives, half-halves, wife-wives etc. In Albanian language the plural of feminine nouns can make with suffixes –a, -ra etc. for example: bankar, vera kashtëra, nënë, (ca) nëna, një fushë (ca) fusha, një bankë (ca) banka, ditët, rrugët, udhët, derë - duar, derë - dyer, natë netë etc. In English language are some forms of possibility for to build the plural nouns e.g. ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ -s cat-cats, dog-dogs, day-days. -y--i: baby-babies, story-stories, lady-ladies. s, z, c, xh, zh in plural gets suffixes –es; glass - glasses, place - places, bush bushes, branch – branches etc. -f, –ves, or –s e.g. leaf - leaves, knife - knives, roof - roofs, shelf - shelves etc. The irregular nouns: woman - women, fisherman - fishermen, child - children, ox – oxen, foot-feet, tooth - teeth, goose - geese, mouse - mice etc. 3. The neuter nouns The neuter nouns exit in both of languages. In Albanian language we have e.g. kryet, të ecurit, të menduarit, se foluri brumë, drithë, dyllë, mish, miell (from adjective) të zitë, të bardhtë, të ftohtë (from verb) të folurit, të qeshurit etc. This is same in English e.g. book, house, desk, tree, wall, a street, a flower, a table, a fork, a pen, a spoon, love etc. We have in both of languages a lot of nouns that are “ambigen” for example in Albanian: male, malet tona, qytete tona, qytete të mëdha, vende malore, vendim i drejtë, djepi, ligji, busti, naftë, program, loti, thekër etc. In English it is same for example: friend, girlfriend or boyfriend, child, partner, writer, professor, teacher, student, speaker, pupil, person etc. The animal nouns e.g. bull – cow, drake - duck, horse – mare, dog - bitch etc. The plural form of the neuter noun kreu – head, chief, krerë – heads, or krerë bagëtish – heads of cattle it is change ye – e and suffix –rë. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 44 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS Personal dual gender is a large including, for example, the following: artist, fool, musician, speaker, student, teacher, writer, professor, person, parent, neighbour, friend, doctor, cook etc. 4. The number of nouns In both of languages the noun has two numbers: singular and plural. In English language we can see in the following some forms of singular and plural nouns, too. one book two books one watch two watches one boy two boys one church two churches one problem two problems one house two house one thing two things one bus two buses one shop two shops one dish two dishes one name two names one glass two glasses one flower two flowers one box two boxes”viii ∑ The structures of English and Albanian general forms are the same e.g: një dyqan - one shop; two shops - dy dyqane, një emër - one name - two names etc. In Albanian and English we have some nouns that can have the same structure only in singular e.g. like with abstract nouns: ∑ dashuri - dashuria, guxim - guximi, uri – uria, Kos - kosi, benzinë - benzina, qumësht – qumështi, the month, year, nouns: janari, shkurti, marsi, January, April, June, October etc. matematikë, histori, kimi, fizikë, Chemist, Ardita, Xhoni, Teuta, London, Parisi, veri, jug, lindje, perëndim, North, West, East, South etc. ∑ In Albanian and English we have some nouns that can use just in plural e.g: makarona – makaronat (macaroni), krunde – krunde (bran), dhentë – sheep, viset – places, syze - syzet, gërshërët - gërshërët, miellra - miellrat, vajra – vajrat, miell, krunde, kokrrat, pantallonat, syzat, plakat, lajkat, ethet, pllakat, Alpe, Mrize, Kodër, shpatet, viset, lugjet etc. In English we have some nouns that are with the same structure in singular and plural: viii Shukrane Gë rmizaj, A comprehensives handbook of English grammar, Prishtina, 2004, p.149. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 45 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS Singular Plural deer deer fish fish sheep sheep series series ////// / cloths //////// goods //////// tropics ///////// jeans ////////////// shorts ////////// glasses The noun sheep, deer, cod etc., that are countable nouns do not have different between singular or plural e.g. This sheep has just had a lamb These sheep have just had lambs”.ix The number of nouns in the plural usually make with suffixes –es. –s for example: Cat - cats, map - maps, boy - boys, girl - girls, case - cases, house – houses etc. By the examples we can consider in Albanian and English it’s possible to see the similar or the contrast between two languages. 5. The countable and uncountable nouns In Albanian and English language we have countable and uncountable nouns. The countable nouns are all the nouns e.g. ∑ Prishtina (not Pristina), Shkupi (not (Scupi), Kosova (not Kosovo) Drini, Morava, libër, shkollë, mësues, mielli, uji, plakat, lajkat, ethet etc, or in English: “I bought some chairs, tables, and desks. In other words, I bought some furniture”.x Nouns can be broadly into a small number of classes which have meaning and grammatical behaviour. There is an important distinct common and proper nouns. Common nouns can be countable and uncountable. Countable nouns refer to entities which can be counted, they are singular and plural forms (a cow, two cows) etc.). Both ix x Sideny Greenbaun (…), A student’s grammar of the English language, London, England, 1990, p.95. Batty Schrampfer Azar, English grammar, Washington, 2006, p.107. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 46 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS in the singular and plural there is a contrast between definite and indefinite forms (a cow, two cows, the cows). Countable nouns have both singular and plural forms, referring to one or more than one entity, respectively. Uncountable nouns refer to entities which cannot be counted and uncounted for number. Though they do not combine with the indefinite article, the contrast between an indefinite and definite form (e.g. milk, the milk) …xi Countable nouns are same in both of language: We can find large number of countable nouns for example: Person businessman, journalist, yachtsman, Concrete objects boat, present, vacuum cleaner, Actions event, move, race, Other abstractions contribution, result, rule It needs to be stressed again that countability is not a simple reflection of things observed in the external world. For example, even a countable noun such as thing is used not only with reference to discrete concrete objects, but also to abstractions which do not so obviously or naturally come as distinct entities see the use of these things in the following example: I have just got it confirmed, but these things take time. ∑ ∑ 6. In Albanian language we find plurals noun for example: karrikë - karrika, libër - libra, shtëpi - shtëipa etj. So, a countable noun in English has plurals and can be used: a/an. a chair - chairs, a book - books, a house – houses etc. The uncountable nouns Uncountable nouns have plurals (Albanian and English, too), and cannot normally be used with e.g. air, water, English, weather. She speaks good English. (Not. She speaks good English). Ajo e flet mirë anglishtne. (Jo. Ajo e flet një anglishte mirë). In English the article a, an can use for to make the noun in singular and /a/ used before the noun that begin with consonant and an used before the words that begin with vowel. xi Douglas Biber, Sitg Johansson, Grammar of spoke and written English, London, England, 1999, p.245. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 47 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS She speaks good English. It’s terrible weather. (Not. a terrible weather). In English and Albanian we have some nouns that are countable and uncountable e.g. I’ll have a cup of coffee, please. Did you remember to buy coffee? We use common nouns to categorize or label people and things. They are countable and uncountable. We can use countable common nouns in the singular, with a/an and each, or in the plural, with number and many. Do you have a black pen or a pencil? We usually use uncountable common nouns when we talk about as abstract concept, or activity, a substance or a material. Uncountable nouns are not used with a/an or in the plural. We can use uncountable nouns with no article (a) and much (b). a. Her poem is about flying, freedom and bad luck. (not. a bad luck). b. They have food clothing, but they don’t have much water. (not waters). “Countable nouns can be singular or plural and are normally used to refer to people, creatures and objects, or actions and events, which can be thought of as separate individual things e.g. actor, bird, car, man, party, problem est.”.xii Uncountable nouns are used with singular verbs, but not to refer to individual things. They are not typically used with a/an. We use uncountable nouns to talk about substance and materials, abstracts ideas, qualities and states or activities e.g. chess, tennis, work, education, freedom, love, meat, petrol, rice etc. The examples ice, love, time arrival, contact, news, time feedback, theory, importance are types of meaning which can be countable and uncountable nouns: substances (air, ice), emotional and other (news, receivership, contact); qualities (importance), events (arrival). Many nouns which are basically uncountable also have countable with difference meaning. We have some examples: time (demoting a particular occasion or a period in history), air (demoting a tune or a type of appearance or manner). xii George Yule, Oxford practice grammar, Oxford, 2008, p. 74. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 48 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS “The things we can count are called count nouns. The things we cannot are called non count nouns. A non-count noun does not have a plural form and we cannot put a number in front of it. We never use a/an with non-count nouns. Count nouns example: a book - books, one book - two books, some books, a lot of books, many books, a few books or non-count nouns singular: sugar, same sugar, a lot of sugar, much sugar, a little sugar.xiii The use of a noun as countable or uncountable is lexically restricted difference in meaning varies to a large extent with the individual noun. The short form of countable is C and for uncountable is U. Both can be C/U nouns, but in the contest we can know different of meaning. For example: a. Six teas please. (C) b. It was in fact impossible to be strenuously diligent after one of Mrs Sutton’s teas. (C) c. Plant beverage include tea, coffee, wine, …and sweet beverage (U) d. We learned to eat brown rice and yogurt and to tolerate kasha and add-tasting teas. The countable instances of tea are used in the sentence “a cup of tea’ /a/ “a type of tea’ and “a small meal usually served in the afternoon with a cup of tea’’ b. The uses illustrated in /a and d/ are often found with other basically uncountable nouns. Countable and uncountable nouns we have and abstract nouns, for example education, freedom, etc. 7. Plural uncountable nouns Although it may seem to be a contradiction, there are plural uncountable. These are morphologically plural nouns which do not vary for number and do not combine with numerals: She wears those jigsaw-type clothes, trousers usually. Unite nouns are in a way the opposite of collective nouns: rather than provide a collective reference for separate entities, they make it possible to split up an undifferentiated mass and refer to separate instances of a phenomenon. Both types of noun provide alternative ways of viewing xiii Kathryn Church, American English workbook, Tirana, 2002, p.25. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 49 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS and referring, collective nouns with respect to countable and until nouns with respect to uncountablexiv. With bit of and piece of are the most productive, each combining with well over 100 different collocates. Unit Noun Selected Collocatesxv act of adultery, kindness, folly bit of beef, cake, cheese, sugar, paper chip of glass, ice, paint chunk of chocolate, meat, gold, data game of cards, chess, golf, tennis grain of corn, dust, salt, sand item of clothing, information, equipment loaf of bread lump of clay, soil, butter, fat piece of cake, chicken, wood pair of clippers, glasses, plants slice of pie, ham, bread etc. Here are some groups of nouns: 1. Countable nouns with singular (and plural) in –is, analysis, analyses, crossroads, series. 2. Other nouns with singular and plural the same: trout, deer, fish, salmon. 3. Nouns that have a plural without –s after a number hundred (two hundred) million (two million)… 4. Nouns with singular in –f (e), plural in –ves, calf - claves, wife - wives, knife knives, self - selves. 5. Nouns with irregular plurals: man - men, woman - women, child - children, foot - feet. 6. Uncountable singular nouns ending in –s (normally no plural) billiards, economics, politics, gymnastics. 7. Plural nouns with no singular e.g. arms, clothes, people, trousers, congratulations etc. 8. To form the plural nouns, add –s, table - tables, room - rooms, desk - desks, etc. 9. If the noun ends s, sh, ch, x, or z add es, glass - glasses, dish - dishes, church churches, box - boxes etc. xiv xv Douglas Biber, Sitg Johansson, Grammar of spoke and written English, London, England, 1999, p.250 Shkelqim Millaku, 2016, The compound nouns (…), European Journal of Education Studies, Vo.2. Iss.3. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 50 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS 10. If the noun ends in a /y/ preceded by a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) only add /s/, day-s, guy-s, key-s etc. 11. If the noun ends in on/o/ preceded by a consonant, add -es. Potato - potatoes, hero - heroes, tomato - tomatoes, radios, zoo - zoos. 12. If the noun is a compound, make the noun plural, not the modifier: mother-inlow --- mothers-in-low, piece of cake - pieces of cake. 13. If the number, litter, or sing is considered as a word, add ‘s. 1900’s, (1900), 1010’së ABC-ABC’s. 14. Some nouns are same in the singular and plural, fish - fish, deer - deer, sheep sheep. 15. Some nouns are always plural: mathematics, pants, cloths etc. Plural and uncountable nouns with and without /the/ (flowers) the flowers, music- the music. 1. We do not use /the/ before a noun when we mean something in general: I love flowers (not, the flowers). I prefer classical music to pop music. (Not, the classical music….)xvi. 2. We say /the/ … when the mean something in particular. I like your garden. The flowers are beautiful. All the students in the class like their teacher. 3. We do not usually say with the names of countries, cities, and village. Franca not the France, Europe not the Europe, or New York, Prishtina, Paris etc. We can say with /the/ names which include works like: republic, kingdom, states. The United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Republic of… Regions: the north of England, the south of Spain, etc. Regular count nouns Irregular count nouns Singular Plural Singular Plural Lemon Lemons Man Men Song Songs Woman Women Egg Eggs Child Children List Lists Person People Cake Cakes Foot Feet Orange Oranges Tooth Teeth Idea Ideas Mouse Mice Glass Glasses Dish Dishes Sandwich Sandwiches Box Boxes xvi Raymond Murphy, English grammar in use, Cambridge, 1992, p. 148. European Journal of English Language Teaching - Volume 1 │ Issue 2 │ 2016 51 Shkelqim Millaku , Xhevahire Topanica – THE GENDER OF COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS “Some words (English) borrowed from Latin and Greek keep their foreign plural, or their maybe alternation with regular plural forms. Latin nouns ending –us Latin nouns ending in –um alumnus - alumni aquarium - aquaria calculus - calculi curriculum - curricula terminus - termini millennium - millennia index - indicesxvii Greek nouns ending in-is: Axis – axes, crisis - crises, diagnosis - diagnoses. The build of nouns in singular and plural, masculine, feminine and neuter, countable or uncountable are augmented for both of languages for reports that have the same or different. Conclusion The aim of this study is to point out of similarities, differences, contrasts or generation of gender between Albanian and English language by comparing different (function) parts of speech. The first contrast of gender between two languages are the cases, the second are definite and indefinite, the third are articles, the fourth are prefix and suffix, the fifth are endings etc. The full contrast between two language was seen at the possessive case, in Albanian language can be realize with the article (for masculine, feminine and neuter) i (m), e (f), të (n) and së (f) or with definite endings –i, it, -in, -ve (m), or –u, -ut, -un (m), but in English this case used with the article /the/ for definite nouns (m, f, n), so between two languages it is the contrast because it has two forms of possessive and usually used after the noun e.g. Mary’s book, Time’s house, students’, worker’s, children’s, women’sxviii, This is Arta’s jacket, This is my mother’s jacket. This is the dog’s food. 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