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grammatical gender - 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

gender

grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

feminine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female

masculine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male

neuter - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

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grammatical gender (redirected from Gender inflection)

grammatical gender
(redirected from Gender inflection)