masculineindicative

Masculineindicative is the masculine form of a verb within the indicative mood used when the subject is masculine. In languages with grammatical gender that affects verbal inflection, verbs may agree with the subject in gender, number, and person, making a masculine indicative distinct from feminine or neuter forms.

In languages with gendered verbal morphology, the masculine indicative contrasts with feminine forms. Arabic provides clear examples: in the present indicative, the verb bears gender marking, as in yaktubu "he writes" versus taktubu "she writes"; in the past, kataba "he wrote" versus katabat "she wrote". Hebrew also shows masculine and feminine variants in certain tenses.

Some languages do not mark gender on finite verbs in the indicative. Spanish, Italian, and other Romance languages typically show subject gender only in agreement with pronouns or through adjectives and participles, not on the verb form itself.

The term masculineindicative is not universally used; linguists more often speak of gender agreement on finite verbs or the masculine form of the indicative. It is mainly a descriptive label for discussions of languages that grammatically encode gender in the verb.