ěvče. As you can see, it's the grammatical gender which is decisive, not reality.

The (partly) good news is that it is sometimes possible to guess the gender of the noun from its ending:

 Nouns ending in a consonant are mostly masculine. Early examples will

include kluk(boy), muž (man), stroj (machine), hrad (castle), dům (house), and two proper names, František and Matěj.