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
Type | Words |
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Synonyms | gender |
Type of | grammatical category, syntactic category |
Has types | feminine, masculine, neuter |
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