No binario is masculine, because it ends in -o. To make it feminine, it is changed to no binaria, ending in -a. Therefore, no binaria is feminine.

There are neutral adjectives that end in something else, such as verde (green) or feliz (happy), but most adjectives do not have a neutral form.

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know, I can actually speak a bit of spanish myself haha.

But what do you do when you speak to a person who doesn't identify as neither? How do you justify the use of either no binario or no binaria? You need a gender for that. And if you can't figure out a gender there probably is a common or more agreed upon version or? I thought in this case more people might just use 'no binaria' for everyone.

Someone else mentioned 'no binarie' so I guess there's another way out of this.

[–] apolo399@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can use "no binaria", which kind of implies the usage of "persona".

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I misunderstood, I didn't realize in this scenario you were asking them if they were nonbinary. The linguistic answer is everything in Spanish defaults to masculine.

I, personally, would treat it the same as I treat the pronoun game here in the US, because it's essentially the same thing: I start with whichever one jumps out at me and accept correction if necessary, because they are the ones who made the decision to make their grammatical identifiers differ from convention. It's not my responsibility to know it ahead of time.

If they want to be a dick about it, I now know they're not someone I want to spend time around anyway.

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I guess most people are cool with that approach anyhow