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*Lithuanian male and female names are distinguished grammatically. | *Lithuanian male and female names are distinguished grammatically. | ||
:*Almost all Lithuanian female names end in the vowels -a or -ė. | :*Almost all Lithuanian female names end in the vowels -a or -ė. | ||
*Male names almost always end in -s, and rarely in a vowel -a. If a masculine name ending in -a has a feminine counterpart, it ends in -ė, e.g. Jogaila and Jogailė. | *Male names almost always end in -s, and rarely in a vowel -a. If a masculine name ending in -a has a feminine counterpart, it ends in -ė, e.g. Jogaila and Jogailė.<ref>"Lithuanian name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_name, 6 March 2021.</ref> | ||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||