Question

Identify the feminine form of the following noun:
drake
a) drakess
b) she-drake
c) duck
d) drakenne

Answer 1

Hint: Masculine nouns are used to indicate men, boys, and male animals, whereas feminine nouns are used to indicate women, girls, and female animals. The word is given in the question, drake is a term that is used to refer to a male duck.

Complete answer:
 In the given question we have been given the masculine form of a noun and we need to find its feminine noun from the options given. The given word is drake and it refers to a male duck.
Therefore, we can understand that the feminine form of this word should refer to a female duck.
Now, let us take a look at the given options and try to find a word that is an accurate option for the given word.
Option ‘A, drakess’, ‘B, she-drake’ and ‘D, drakenne’ are words that do not exist in the English vocabulary. Option ‘C, duck’ can be the correct answer as it is a word that is used both as a common word to denote the species and specifically to denote the female ducks.
Hence, we can see that options ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘D’ are incorrect and the correct answer to the given question option ‘C’, ‘duck’, which is the correct feminine form of the masculine form given in the sentence, drake.

Note:
In spoken language, it can be often noticed that the meaning that people give the word ‘duck’ can be used to refer to both the males and the females, that is, it is used as a common word. But, ‘duck’ is a word that originally refers to the females of the species only. Hence, always use the word ‘drake’ to refer to the male ducks.