grammatical gender

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 106339636)
    is a type of: grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
    subtypes:
    • 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)
    same as: gender

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