Nouns of either gender 陽性或者陰性皆可的名詞
A few nouns can be either masculine or feminine. Relatively common among these are: diabetes (also diabete) ‘diabetes’, suéter ‘sweater’ (more often encountered as masculine) and hélice ‘propeller’ (which is more commonly feminine, though can be masculine when referring to the propeller of a ship or boat). 有一些名詞,它們是陽性或者陰性皆可的,其中比較常見的是diabetes (also diabete) ‘diabetes’ 糖尿病, suéter ‘sweater’ 羊毛衫(通常都是陽性的)和 hélice ‘propeller’ 螺旋槳,推進器(通常都是陰性的,但是它也可以是陽性的,當涉及的是輪船或者是小艇。