What are some common rules to help learn the gender of a noun?

There are some common rules to help with this in Italian. It's not always possible to know whether a noun is masculine or feminine, but learning some rules will help. For example:Nouns ending in - ione, -udine, -igine and -ice are feminine (usually)Nouns ending in -ore, -ame and -ale are masculine (usually)

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