a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
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grammatical gender::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gender |
| Type of | grammatical category, syntactic category |
| Has types | feminine, masculine, neuter |
Examples of grammatical gender
grammatical gender
The indefinite and definite articles express the grammatical gender of the noun.
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Unlike Dutch, this inflection depends only on position, not grammatical gender.
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Nouns are not marked for grammatical gender, although they are marked for number.
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Unlike some other languages, in English, nouns do not have grammatical gender.
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The descriptions they gave differed in a way predicted by grammatical gender.
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Modern Armenian is agglutinative, rich in consonants, and has no grammatical gender.
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The Zazaki language distinguishes between masculine and feminine grammatical gender.
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Also there is no grammatical gender or requirement for adjectives to agree with nouns.
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The sudden change in grammatical gender reference means that it is not about the wives.
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