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Grammatical gender

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Feminine nouns include female animates, three types of fish, some plants, the sun and other heavenly objects, some body parts and skin diseases, the soul, and some religious items. Words for part of a whole, as well as most other nouns that do not fall into any of the aforementioned classes, are neuter. The gender assignment of non-sex-differentiable things is complex. In general, those of no importance to the Kets are feminine, whereas objects of importance (e.g. fish, wood) are masculine. Mythology is again a significant factor.
5140:(bucket) and so forth. Many of the words where it is possible to choose gender are inanimate objects that one might suspect would be conjugated with the neuter gender. Nouns conjugated with the neuter gender cannot normally be conjugated as feminine or masculine in Norwegian. There is also a slight tendency towards using the masculine indefinite article even when choosing the feminine conjugation of a noun in many eastern Norwegian dialects. For instance, the word for "girl" is declined: 3301: 3273: 3313: 915:) is masculine. Hence, if a neuter relative pronoun is used, the relative clause refers to "flowerbed", and if a masculine pronoun is used, the relative clause refers to "garden". Because of this, languages with gender distinction can often use pronouns where in English a noun would have to be repeated in order to avoid confusion. It does not, however, help in cases where the words are of the same grammatical gender. 2694: 51: 1267:
by women, natural, round, or light" and male gender to objects "used by men, artificial, angular, or heavy." Apparent failures to reproduce the effect for German speakers has also led to a proposal that the effect is restricted to languages with a two-gender system, possibly because such languages are inclined towards a greater correspondence between grammatical and natural gender.
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be used for long thin objects, another for flat objects, another for people, another for abstracts, etc.), although sometimes a noun is associated with a particular classifier more by convention than for any obvious reason. However it is also possible for a given noun to be usable with any of several classifiers; for example, the
4158:: Brunhild, Kriemhild and Hroswith became Brunhilde, Kriemhilde and Hroswitha. Slavic feminine given names: Olga (Russian), Małgorzata (Polish), Tetiana (Ukrainian), Oksana (Belarusian), Eliška (Czech), Bronislava (Slovak), Milica (Serbian), Darina (Bulgarian), Lucja (Croatian), Lamija (Bosnian) and Zala (Slovenian). 1192:. This makes some obviously feminine noun phrases like "a cute girl", "the well milking cow" or "the pregnant mares" sound strange to most Norwegian ears when spoken by Danes and people from Bergen since they are inflected in a way that sounds like the masculine declensions in South-Eastern Norwegian dialects. 1396:
Classifiers can be considered similar to genders or noun classes, in that a language which uses classifiers normally has a number of different ones, used with different sets of nouns. These sets depend largely on properties of the things that the nouns denote (for example, a particular classifier may
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It has been shown that grammatical gender causes a number of cognitive effects. For example, when native speakers of gendered languages are asked to imagine an inanimate object speaking, whether its voice is male or female tends to correspond to the grammatical gender of the object in their language.
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This is similar to systems with a masculine–feminine contrast, except that there is a third available gender, so nouns with sexless or unspecified-sex referents may be either masculine, feminine, or neuter. There are also certain exceptional nouns whose gender does not follow the denoted sex, such as
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Polish might be said to distinguish five genders: personal masculine (referring to male humans), animate non-personal masculine, inanimate masculine, feminine, and neuter. The animate–inanimate opposition for the masculine gender applies in the singular, and the personal–impersonal opposition, which
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It is possible for a noun to have more than one gender. Such gender shifts are sometimes correlated with meaning shifts, and sometimes yield doublets with no difference in meaning. Moreover, gender shifts sometimes crosscuts number contrasts, such that the singular form of a noun has one gender, and
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Nouns that denote specifically male persons (or animals) are normally of masculine gender; those that denote specifically female persons (or animals) are normally of feminine gender; and nouns that denote something that does not have any sex, or do not specify the sex of their referent, have come to
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In Russian, the different treatment of animate nouns involves their accusative case (and that of adjectives qualifying them) being formed identically to the genitive rather than to the nominative. In the singular that applies to masculine nouns only, but in the plural it applies in all genders. See
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Related languages need not assign the same gender to a noun: this shows that gender can vary across related languages. Conversely, unrelated languages that are in contact can impact how a borrowed noun is assigned gender, with either the borrowing or the donor language determining the gender of the
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match those of related words. Gender is one of the categories which frequently require agreement. In this case, nouns may be considered the "triggers" of the process, because they have an inherent gender, whereas related words that change their form to match the gender of the noun can be considered
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Caveats of this research include the possibility of subjects' "using grammatical gender as a strategy for performing the task", and the fact that even for inanimate objects the gender of nouns is not always random. For example, in Spanish, female gender is often attributed to objects that are "used
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In many languages, nouns are assigned to gender largely without any semantic basis—that is, not based on any feature (such as animacy or sex) of the person or thing that a noun represents. In such languages there may be a correlation, to a greater or lesser degree, between gender and the form of a
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division is only partially valid, and many nouns may belong to a gender category that contrasts with their meaning, e.g. the word for "manliness" could be of feminine gender, as it is in French with "la masculinité" and "la virilité". In such a case, the gender assignment can also be influenced by
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In a few languages, the assignment of any particular noun (i.e., nominal lexeme, that set of noun forms inflectable from a common lemma) to one grammatical gender is solely determined by that noun's meaning, or attributes, like biological sex, humanness, or animacy. However, the existence of words
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In the singular, masculine animates (in the standard declension) have an accusative form identical to the genitive, and masculine inanimates have accusative identical to the nominative. The same applies to adjectives qualifying these nouns, the same as in Russian and Czech. Also, Polish masculine
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A similar system applies in Czech, but the situation is somewhat different in the plural: Only masculine nouns are affected, and the distinctive feature is a distinct inflective ending for masculine animate nouns in the nominative plural and for adjectives and verbs agreeing with those nouns. See
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However, these are relatively insignificant features compared with a typical language with full grammatical gender. English nouns are not generally considered to belong to gender classes in the way that French, German or Russian nouns are. There is no gender agreement in English between nouns and
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has three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), and most gender assignment is based on semantics, but there are many inanimate nouns outside the neuter class. Masculine nouns include male animates, most fish, trees, the moon, large wooden objects, most living beings and some religious items.
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has four genders: male human, female human, animal, and inanimate. However, there are about 80 nouns representing inanimate entities which are nonetheless animate in gender: heavenly objects (moon, rainbow), metal objects (hammer, ring), edible plants (sweet potato, pea), and non-metallic objects
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When a noun with conflicting natural and grammatical gender is the antecedent of a pronoun, it may not be clear which gender of pronoun to choose. There is a certain tendency to keep the grammatical gender when a close back-reference is made, but to switch to natural gender when the reference is
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Nouns which have the same meanings in different languages need not have the same gender. This is particularly so in the case of things with no natural gender, such as sexless objects. For example, there is, by all appearances, nothing about a table that should cause it to be associated with any
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Although gender inflection may be used to construct nouns and names for people of different sexes in languages that have grammatical gender, this alone does not constitute grammatical gender. Distinct words and names for men and women are also common in languages which do not have a grammatical
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In Norwegian, many nouns can be either feminine or masculine according to the dialect, level of formality or whim of the speaker/writer. Even the two written forms of the language have many nouns whose gender is optional. Choosing the masculine gender will often seem more formal than using the
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things (humans and animals) generally belong to one gender, and those that denote inanimate things to another (although there may be some deviation from that principle). Examples include earlier forms of Proto-Indo-European and the earliest family known to have split off from it, the extinct
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In some languages, the gender of nouns can mostly be determined by physical (semantic) attributes, although there remain some nouns whose gender is not assigned in this way (Corbett calls this "semantic residue"). The world view (e.g. mythology) of the speakers may influence the division of
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has two genders, masculine and feminine. However, the masculine also includes things which are tall or long and slender, or narrow (e.g. fish, snakes, arrows and slender trees), whereas the feminine gender has things which are short, squat or wide (e.g. turtles, houses, shields and squat
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As regards the pronouns used to refer to animals, these generally agree in gender with the nouns denoting those animals, rather than the animals' sex (natural gender). In a language like English, which does not assign grammatical gender to nouns, the pronoun used for referring to objects
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and most spoken dialects retain masculine, feminine and neuter even if their Scandinavian neighbors have lost one of the genders. As shown, the merger of masculine and feminine in these languages and dialects can be considered a reversal of the original split in Proto-Indo-European (see
1763:, a language with two gender categories: "natural" vs "grammatical". "Natural" gender can be masculine or feminine, while "grammatical" gender can be masculine, feminine, or neuter. This third, or "neuter" gender is reserved for abstract concepts derived from adjectives: such as 6733:). Such endings also appear on adjectives and past tense verbs. The two features are analogous to features of Russian and Czech respectively, except that those languages make an animate/inanimate distinction rather than personal/impersonal) . Examples of the Polish system: 1320:, such as sex, animacy, shape, although in some instances a noun can be placed in a particular class based purely on its grammatical behavior. Some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym of "noun class", but others use different definitions for each. 2550:
When a language has gendered pronouns, the use of a particular word as a dummy pronoun may involve the selection of a particular gender, even though there is no noun to agree with. In languages with a neuter gender, a neuter pronoun is usually used, as in German
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in the late 19th century, Norwegians wrote in Danish, which has lost the feminine gender, thus usage of the masculine gender (corresponding exactly to Danish common gender in conjugation in Norwegian Bokmål) is more formal sounding to modern Norwegians.
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Ibrahim identifies several processes by which a language assigns a gender to a newly borrowed word; these processes follow patterns by which even children, through their subconscious recognition of patterns, can often correctly predict a noun's gender.
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In other languages, the division into genders usually correlates to some degree, at least for a certain set of nouns, such as those denoting humans, with some property or properties of the things that particular nouns denote. Such properties include
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That the masculine is seen in Icelandic as the most generic or 'unmarked' of the three genders can also be seen in the fact that the nouns for most professions are masculine. Even feminine job descriptions historically filled by women, like
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argues that the cross-lingual retention of grammatical gender can change not only the lexis of the target language but also its morphology. For example, gender can indirectly influence the productivity of noun-patterns in what he calls the
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are used depending on whether the referent is male, female, or inanimate or non-human; this is in spite of the fact that English does not generally have grammatical gender). A parallel example is provided by the object suffixes of verbs in
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system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the
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In the case of languages which have masculine and feminine genders, the relation between biological sex and grammatical gender tends to be less exact in the case of animals than in the case of people. In Spanish, for instance, a
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is an example of such a language, with a division (in the plural) between masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and neuter. The rules for gender and number of coordinated phrases in that language are summarized at
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However, when referring to previously unmentioned groups of people or when referring to people in a generic way, especially when using an indefinite pronoun like 'some' or 'all', the masculine plural is used. For example:
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In literature, gender can be used to "animate and personify inanimate nouns". Languages with gender distinction generally have fewer cases of ambiguity concerning, for example, pronominal reference. In the English phrase
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asks people to describe a noun, and attempts to measure whether it takes on gender-specific connotations depending on the speaker's native language. For example, one study found that German speakers describing a bridge
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In languages with masculine and feminine gender, the masculine is usually employed by default to refer to persons of unknown gender and to groups of people of mixed gender. Thus, in French the feminine plural pronoun
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classes animals along with inanimate objects, applies in the plural. (A few nouns denoting inanimate things are treated grammatically as animate and vice versa.) The manifestations of the differences are as follows:
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Whereas some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym of "noun class", others use different definitions for each. Many authors prefer "noun classes" when none of the inflections in a language relate to
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of a noun, pronoun or noun phrase is a gender to which it would be expected to belong based on relevant attributes of its referent. Although grammatical gender can coincide with natural gender, it does not need to.
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in Spanish, which may be either masculine or feminine, depending on whether it refers to a male or a female. It may also correspond to some other difference in the meaning of the word. For example, the German word
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Grammatical gender is a common phenomenon in the world's languages. A typological survey of 174 languages revealed that over one fourth of them had grammatical gender. Gender systems rarely overlap with numerical
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The two sentences above mean literally "much obliged"; the adjective agrees with the natural gender of the speaker, that is, with the gender of the first person pronoun which does not appear explicitly here.
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In French, the distinction between the gender of a noun and the gender of the object it refers to is clear when nouns of different genders can be used for the same object, for example vélo (m.) = bicyclette
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In some languages, the gender of a noun is directly determined by its physical attributes (sex, animacy, etc.), and there are few or no exceptions to this rule. There are relatively few such languages. The
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Grammatical gender can be realized as inflection and can be conditioned by other types of inflection, especially number inflection, where the singular-plural contrast can interact with gender inflection.
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Rarely, the word retains the gender it had in the donor language. This tends to happen more frequently in more formal language such as scientific terms, where some knowledge of the donor language can be
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affected by gender agreement, the circumstances in which it occurs, and the way words are marked for gender vary between languages. Gender inflection may interact with other grammatical categories like
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mostly continue the Proto-Indo-European system of three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter. Gender correlates largely with noun endings (masculine nouns typically end in a consonant, feminines in
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to merge, thereby making etymologically distinct words sound alike. In languages with gender distinction, however, these word pairs may still be distinguishable by their gender. For example, French
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are considered rational, and other nouns (those representing animals and objects) are treated as nonrational. Within the rational class there are further subdivisions into masculine, feminine and
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Given names are proper nouns and they follow the same gender grammatical rules as common nouns. In most Indo-European languages female grammatical gender is created using an "a" or an "e" ending.
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such as Italian and French, generally follow the gender of the Latin words from which they are derived. When nouns deviate from the rules for gender, there is usually an etymological explanation:
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In some languages, nouns with human references have two forms, a male and a female one. This includes not only proper names, but also names for occupations and nationalities. Examples include:
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In the plural, masculine personal nouns (but not other animate nouns) take accusatives that are identical to the genitives; they also typically take different endings in the nominative (e.g.
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Here a masculine–feminine–neuter system previously existed, but the distinction between masculine and feminine genders has been lost in nouns (they have merged into what is called
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nouns in closely related languages are likely to have the same gender, because they tend to inherit the gender of the original word in the parent language. For instance, in the
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does not have gendered forms. In the singular, however, the issue frequently arises when a person of unspecified or unknown gender is being referred to. In this case it the
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The grammatical gender of a noun manifests itself in two principal ways: in the modifications that the noun itself undergoes, and in modifications of other related words (
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Depending on the language and the word, this assignment might bear some relationship with the meaning of the noun (e.g. "woman" is usually feminine), or may be arbitrary.
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neuter gender.) In languages with only masculine and feminine genders, the dummy pronoun may be the masculine third person singular, as in the French for "it's raining":
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In some cases the gender of a pronoun is not marked in the form of the pronoun itself, but is marked on other words by way of agreement. Thus the French word for "I" is
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also uses common gender and neuter exclusively. The common gender in Bergen and in Danish is inflected with the same articles and suffixes as the masculine gender in
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has a number of different declension patterns, and which pattern a particular noun follows may be highly correlated with its gender. For some instances of this, see
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In English, the problem of gender determination does not arise in the plural, because gender in that language is reflected only in pronouns, and the plural pronoun
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may refer to a group of males or masculine nouns, to a mixed group, or to a group of people of unknown genders. In such cases, one says that the feminine gender is
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Di Garbo F, Olsson B, Wälchli B (eds.). 2019. Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I: General issues and specific studies. Berlin: Language Science Press.
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Some more examples of the above phenomena are given below. (These come mostly from the Slavic languages, where gender largely correlates with the noun ending.)
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Di Garbo F, Olsson B, Wälchli B (eds.). 2019. Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity II: World-wide comparative studies. Berlin: Language Science Press.
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above). In the past and to some degree still in the present, the masculine has been used as the "default" gender in English. The use of the plural pronoun
5172:("organ" as musical instrument), all of which are masculine in the singular but feminine in the plural. These anomalies may have a historical explanation ( 4725:
An example contrasting the two ways to refer to groups is the following, taken from advertisements of Christian congregations announcing their meetings:
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There are certain situations where the assignment of gender to a noun, pronoun or noun phrase may not be straightforward. This includes in particular:
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further away. For example, in German, the sentences "The girl has come home from school. She is now doing her homework" can be translated in two ways:
6883: 1232:, for example, within the masculine and sometimes feminine and neuter genders, there is a further division between animate and inanimate nouns—and in 2141:, these languages neutralize the gender opposition in the plural, itself a marked category. So adjectives and pronouns have three forms in singular ( 2378:
Not all languages have gendered pronouns. In languages that never had grammatical gender, there is normally just one word for "he" and "she", like
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change their form depending on the noun to which they refer. Spanish nouns have two genders: masculine and feminine, represented here by the nouns
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In some languages, gender is determined by strictly semantic criteria, but in other languages, semantic criteria only partially determine gender.
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In most languages that have grammatical gender, a combination of these three types of criteria is found, although one type may be more prevalent.
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suggests a neuter noun, but there is no way to cross-check it and there are indeed a few masculine nouns using the same ending in their plural (
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comes down to whether the pronoun is intended to designate a woman, a man, or someone or something else. There are certain exceptions, however:
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to be applied to the noun. They are not regularly used in English or other European languages, although they parallel the use of words such as
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belong to one or other of the genders, in a way that may appear arbitrary. Examples of languages with such a system include most of the modern
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The gender of an English pronoun typically coincides with the natural gender of its referent, rather than with the grammatical gender of its
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of their final consonant can change gender in their plural form, as a palatalized final consonant is often a marker of a feminine noun, e.g.
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In languages which preserve a three-way gender division in the plural, the rules for determining the gender (and sometimes number) of a
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may be used for a baby but not normally for an older child or adult. (Other genderless pronouns exist, such as the impersonal pronoun
5789:(each ⌂ represents a slot where a radical is inserted) because of the feminine gender of the matched words for "brush" such as Arabic 5720:
If the borrowed word happens to have a suffix that the borrowing language uses as a gender marker, the suffix tends to dictate gender.
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always designates an all-female group of people (or stands for a group of nouns all of feminine gender), but the masculine equivalent
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Noun classes and categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983
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To complicate matters, Greek often offers additional informal versions of these. The corresponding for English are the following:
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means 'apple wood'). So if one wants to refer to a certain table that is made of wood from an apple tree, one cannot use the word
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Moreover, grammatical gender may serve to distinguish homophones. It is a quite common phenomenon in language development for two
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and inanimate nouns: Polish in the plural, and Russian in the accusative case, differentiate between human and non-human nouns.
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makes use of gender in pronouns, which are generally marked for natural gender, but lacks a system of gender concord within the
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are frequently constructed with affixes that identify the sex of the bearer. Common feminine suffixes used in English names are
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expressions in other languages), such agreement may take place even though the pronoun does not in fact appear. For example, in
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Iturrioz, J. L. (1986) "Structure, meaning and function: a functional analysis of gender and other classificatory techniques".
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Grönberg, Anna Gunnarsdotter (2002). "Masculine generics in current Icelandic". In Hellinger, Marlis; Bußmann, Hamumod (eds.).
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are mostly feminine, regardless of their meaning. Nouns that end in some other vowel are assigned a gender either according to
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particular gender, and different languages' words for "table" are found to have various genders: feminine, as with the French
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is the regular ending for masculine and feminine nouns, both are in fact used to form plurals of nouns of all three genders (
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However, many languages reduced the number of genders to two. Some lost the neuter, leaving masculine and feminine like most
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that denote male and female, such as the difference between "aunt" and "uncle" is not enough to constitute a gender system.
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nouns; for example, to produce nouns with a similar meaning but referring to someone of a different sex. Thus, in Spanish,
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Mercier, Adele (2002) "L'homme et la factrice: sur la logique du genre en français". "Dialogue", Volume 41, Issue 3, 2002
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The gender of a noun may affect the modifications that the noun itself undergoes, particularly the way in which the noun
8077: 7878: 6222: 6177:(two Romance language exceptions). In them, there is a high but not absolute correlation between grammatical gender and 6131: 3276:
In the French language, countries can have masculine (green) or feminine (purple) names. Except for certain islands and
2624:("something") are all treated as masculine—this is in spite of the fact that the last two correspond to feminine nouns ( 2539:) is nonexistent, but when a reference to the argument is nevertheless syntactically required. They occur mostly in non- 1174: 1034: 799: 7378: 7241:, 8. edition, p. 152f.) for example states that all German pluralia tantum have a gender, but it can not be determined. 2583:
means "he", or "it" when referring to masculine nouns); although some languages use the feminine, as in the equivalent
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meaning "lake" is masculine, whereas the identical word meaning "sea" is feminine. The meanings of the Norwegian noun
3723: 2680:("man") is masculine; these attributions occur solely due to the semantically inherent gender character of each noun. 634: 4824:(which has an overall common–neuter gender system), masculinity may be argued to be a marked feature, because in the 2704: 817:
Gender is considered an inherent quality of nouns, and it affects the forms of other related words, a process called
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can be masculine or feminine, depending on the dialect. All these words mean "sea" and are descended from the Latin
4103: 821:. Nouns may be considered the "triggers" of the process, whereas other words will be the "target" of these changes. 369: 101: 8361: 7836: 6456: 5255: 5042:) which are etymologically unrelated. One is masculine and means "finger"; the other is feminine and means "soil". 4883: 3715: 3402:, by analogy, or by some other convention. These rules may override semantics in some cases: for example, the noun 730:
Languages with grammatical gender usually have two to four different genders, but some are attested with up to 20.
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This article is about grammatical rules of agreement with nouns. For uses of language associated with gender, see
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Problems arise when selecting a personal pronoun to refer to someone of unspecified or unknown gender (see also
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In some languages the gender is distinguished only in singular number but not in plural. In terms of linguistic
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In a language with explicit inflections for gender, it is easy to express gender distinctions in animate beings.
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to refer to a child, particularly when speaking generically rather than about a particular child of known sex.
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Janhunen, Juha (1999). "Grammatical gender from east to west". In Unterbeck, Barbara; Rissanen, Matti (eds.).
4875:, where a gender-like distinction is made in the plural between "masculine personal" and all other cases (see 4797:), have been replaced with masculine ones as men have started becoming more represented in these professions: 2416:
to differentiate between people and inanimate objects, but even this distinction is often absent. (In written
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of the referent. Indeed, in most European languages, personal pronouns are gendered; for example English (the
1323:
Many authors prefer "noun classes" when none of the inflections in a language relate to sex, such as when an
722:. According to one definition: "Genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words." 8083: 7566: 6908: 6878: 6558: 6226: 6124: 5991: 5900:, also feminine. The result of this neologism might have been, more generally, the strengthening of Israeli 4922: 4904: 4609: 2446: 2290: 1701: 1439: 1178: 818: 814:
Usually each noun is assigned to one of the genders, and few or no nouns can occur in more than one gender.
612: 497: 450: 339: 39: 35: 6233:, have nearly completely lost grammatical gender (retaining only some traces, such as the English pronouns 5656:
is generally masculine (except in some poetic contexts and among sea workers), whereas the Catalan cognate
3455:("problem") is masculine in Spanish because it was derived from a Greek noun of the neuter gender, whereas 3264:
There are multiple theoretical approaches to the position and structure of gender in syntactic structures.
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would normally be the default for a person of unknown gender, although in practice the indefinite pronoun
2326: 1704:, or concord, is a grammatical process in which certain words change their form so that values of certain 936: 617: 589: 550: 530: 485: 480: 349: 7487: 8459: 7709: 7602: 6873: 6027: 3986: 3791:, which might be confused for a feminine singular noun. Gender may also be predictable from the type of 3468: 3427: 2484: 1721: 1271: 1257: 1199:
common gender, as the declensions follow a different pattern from both the Norwegian written languages.
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Greenberg, J. H. (1978) "How does a language acquire gender markers?" In J. H. Greenberg et al. (eds.)
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Only a relatively small number of English nouns have distinct male and female forms; many of them are
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Grammatical gender "can be a valuable tool of disambiguation", rendering clarity about antecedents or
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Sometimes a noun's gender can change between its plural and singular forms, as with the French words
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class. Many linguists believe that to be true of the middle and late stages of Proto-Indo-European.
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also have extensive systems of noun classes, which can be grouped into several grammatical genders.
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Additionally, in many languages, gender is often closely correlated with the basic unmodified form (
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in phrases like "three pieces of paper" or "thirty head of cattle". They are a prominent feature of
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Gender shift may be associated with a difference in the sex of the referent, as with nouns such as
4929:, in conjunction with each noun—for example, a learner of French may learn the word for "chair" as 4473: 3379: 2910: 2492: 2389: 1241: 1204: 1189: 1095: 1066: 582: 510: 174: 31: 7488:"Male Animate Gender in Polish- definition (Męskożywotny – definicja, synonimy, przykłady użycia)" 6115:
which is one of the central elements of grammatical gender in most other Indo-European languages.
706:. The values present in a given language, of which there are usually two or three, are called the 7523: 6913: 6795: 6627: 6166: 6086: 6070: 5973: 5958: 5563: 5449: 5388: 5051: 4631: 4620: 3834:
tend to be feminine, whereas others tend to be masculine, but there are many exceptions to this (
3796: 2603: 2488: 2413: 2399: 2330: 2145: 1686: 1554: 1497: 1478: 1401: 1046: 374: 354: 299: 275: 8516: 7288: 7230:, 6. edition, 2008, p. 121) for example states that German pluralia tantum do not have a gender. 5517:", also meaning "month") is masculine. In Polish, another Slavic language, the word for moon is 4535:(whistle, ball). Many have a round shape or can be explained by the role they play in mythology. 1920:
are marked with "feminine" articles, while all others use the "generic" or "masculine" articles.
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The grammatical gender of a noun affects the form of other words related to it. For example, in
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with a feminine gender, and if one wants to refer to an apple tree in a garden, one cannot use
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means 'apple tree'), but if it is masculine, it means that it is dead, no longer living (e.g.,
8556: 8489: 8467: 8408: 8389: 8335: 8282: 8230: 8160: 8150: 8087: 7990: 7811: 7782: 7778: 7640: 7630: 7570: 7467: 7455: 6799: 6530: 6436: 6413: 6375:(common gender, used for people or animals of unknown, irrelevant, or non-binary gender), and 6325: 6290: 6274: 6185: 6174: 6139: 6078: 6074: 6039: 6031: 6019: 5950: 5421: 5095: 4545: 4053: 3446: 3300: 3272: 2837:, and this suffix always makes the noun grammatically neuter. Hence the grammatical gender of 2829: 2540: 2536: 2267: 1200: 1062: 1058: 1054: 989: 853: 577: 570: 560: 525: 515: 455: 389: 329: 311: 199: 7969: 6557:, but they are not generally substitutable for a personal pronoun.) For more information see 5723:
If the borrowed word rhymes with one or more native words, the latter tend to dictate gender.
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used in some languages together with a noun, principally to enable numbers and certain other
8496: 8475: 8220: 7989:. Vol. 2. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 163–186. 7861: 7636: 7459: 6635: 6603: 6577: 6534: 6309: 6282: 6278: 6210: 6206: 6193: 6170: 6146: 6135: 6098: 6082: 6055: 6035: 6023: 6015: 6011: 6003: 5995: 5734:
Sometimes the gender of a word switches with time. For example, the Russian modern loanword
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means "girl". This paradigm can be exploited for making new words: from the masculine nouns
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for the male and the female of a species are more frequent for common pets or farm animals,
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has been traditional. Since the 18th century it has been prescribed to use the masculine (
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is neuter, although its natural gender is feminine (because it refers to a female person).
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This usually means masculine or feminine, depending on the referent's sex. For example, in
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Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond
7678: 6823: 6615: 6611: 6298: 6214: 6162: 6007: 5999: 5962: 5946: 5562:("thousand") is masculine, whereas the cognate in Russian, тысяча, is feminine, while the 5251: 4872: 4825: 4503: 4072: 3825: 3703: 3549: 3439:"communist" is masculine when it refers or could refer to a man, even though it ends with 3305: 3241: 2943: 2867: 2819: 2803: 2563:
is the neuter third person singular pronoun. (English behaves similarly, because the word
2417: 2197: 1509: 1473: 1348: 1276: 1166: 1107: 565: 434: 396: 236: 218: 194: 189: 1327:–inanimate distinction is made. Note, however, that the word "gender" derives from Latin 1122:), the same word can have two genders according to the context. For example, if the word 7668:
Sera et al. (2002) and Vigliocco et al. (2005), cited in Pavlidou & Alvanoudi (2013)
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A few nouns have both personal and impersonal forms, depending on meaning (for example,
6598:) but there are many exceptions, particularly in the case of nouns whose stems end in a 5701:
The borrowed word tends to take the gender of the native word it replaces. According to
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In other cases, a word may be usable in multiple genders indifferently. For example, in
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gender system for nouns in general. English, for example, has feminine suffixes such as
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words used when addressing a relative often specify the speaker's gender. For example,
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preceded by double consonants. Certain suffixes are quite reliable indicators, such as
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according to arbitrary convention (lexical, possibly rooted in the language's history).
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In some languages, any gender markers have been so eroded over time (possibly through
4844:, "my little brother"). In spite of this, the third-person singular masculine pronoun 2860: 2808: 2802:
of a noun does not always coincide with its natural gender. An example of this is the
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For other situations in which such a "default" gender assignment may be required, see
8572: 8454: 7771: 6843: 6827: 6562: 6369: 6294: 5759: 5345: 5309: 4879:), a group is treated as masculine personal if it contains at least one male person. 4598: 4484: 4041: 3760: 2602:
A similar, apparently arbitrary gender assignment may need to be made in the case of
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nouns (lacking a singular form) cannot be assigned a gender. Example with Bulgarian:
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in the computing sense). For more information on the above inflection patterns, see
5853:), matches the feminine gender of the parallel pre-existent European words: Yiddish 5746:) "whisky" was originally feminine, then masculine, and today it has become neuter. 5178:
used to be feminine in the singular too) or result from slightly different notions (
4095:), and also distinguishes male and female personal names, as in the above examples. 3344:
There are three main ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders:
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changes its form according to this categorization. In the singular, the article is:
8207:"Gender assignment and gender agreement: Evidence from pronominal gender languages" 6529:), particularly countries and ships, and sometimes other vehicles or machines. See 6498:
is usually used, but when the sex of the animal is known, it may be referred to as
6189: 5430:, whereas the words for "moon" are feminine, being derived from the Latin feminine 5329: 5195: 5185: 4538: 3756: 3568:(meaning "little, young") are always neuter, even if they refer to people, as with 3070: 3040: 2614: 1354: 1339:) which originally meant "kind", so it does not necessarily have a sexual meaning. 1311: 594: 429: 243: 211: 179: 8258: 5912:) as a productive feminine locative suffix (combined with the influence of Polish 3064: 2875:(neuter), meaning "woman" (the word is now pejorative and generally replaced with 1263:
This has been observed for speakers of Spanish, French, and German, among others.
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do not make any such indications because they are ambiguous themselves: although
6506:(particularly when expressing an emotional connection with the animal, as with a 5424:, the words for "sun" are masculine, being derived from the Latin masculine noun 3076: 1236:, also sometimes between nouns denoting humans and non-humans. (For details, see 1128:(meaning 'wood' or 'tree') is feminine, it means that it is a living tree (e.g., 718:. According to one estimate, gender is used in approximately half of the world's 8107: 7807: 7524:"What Are the 4 Genders? 7 Other Types, Gender Identity & 7 Sexuality Types" 6331: 6302: 6263: 6112: 5514: 3426:("person") is always feminine, even when it refers to a boy or a man, a kind of 2850: 2693: 2676: 2568: 2329:, which correspond to object pronouns, and which also inflect for gender in the 686: 50: 6537:; it is also in decline, and advised against by most journalistic style guides. 6455:, for instance, derive directly or indirectly from Latin). English has no live 5270:("small boys"), with the adjective showing agreement for both feminine gender ( 2422: 1240:.) A human–non-human (or "rational–non-rational") distinction is also found in 911: 8369:
Corbett, Greville G. (1994). "Gender and gender systems". In Asher, R. (ed.).
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Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs: Gender in Grammar and Cognition
6507: 6417: 6178: 4912: 4587: 4488: 3591: 3553: 3414:("member") is always masculine, even when it refers to a girl or a woman, and 3166: 2854: 2670: 2305:
With personal pronouns, the gender of the pronoun is likely to agree with the
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are classified as feminine; the same is true for 98% of given names with the
3524:(friend) can be masculine or feminine according to the person they refer to. 3052: 2632: 2394: 2380: 2167: 1577:"son" remains unchanged. Adjectives are affected by gender in a similar way. 1489:
pattern followed by the noun itself will be different for different genders.
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A noun may belong to a given class because of characteristic features of its
8504: 8483: 8164: 7022:"the eagle"). This does not happen if the noun is preceded by an adjective ( 6421: 6330:
Although grammatical gender was a fully productive inflectional category in
6269: 6230: 4510:) are very similar in this respect, although the English gendered pronouns ( 3399: 3356: 3114: 2412:. These languages might only have different pronouns and inflections in the 1733: 1559: 1526:, which has two possible genders: when it is masculine (meaning "lake") its 1459: 1033:
are neuter. Examples of languages with such a system include later forms of
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If the noun is animate, natural gender tends to dictate grammatical gender.
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The word for "sun" can be another example. One might decline it masculine:
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is frequently used as an alternative to various more specific classifiers.
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Fossilized Second Language Grammars: The Acquisition of Grammatical Gender
6257: 6251: 6802:. For certain rules concerning the treatment of mixed-gender groups, see 6432: 6154: 5271: 5023: 4916: 4150:
In the Germanic languages the female names have been Latinized by adding
3732:) are of feminine gender, the only significant exceptions being the word 3509: 3038:
This phenomenon is quite popular in Slavic languages: for example Polish
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Many Indo-European languages retained the three genders, including most
3035:("this little girl" – with female demonstrative pronoun and adjective). 2428: 1787: 1781: 1573: 7865: 6619: 5417: 5027: 4908: 4772:
is more specific and emphasises the individuality of the group members.
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is a type of pronoun used when a particular verb argument (such as the
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noun (such as the vowel or consonant or syllable with which it ends).
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Grammatical gender manifests itself when words related to a noun like
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The word for "manliness" has feminine grammatical gender in Spanish (
4935:(meaning "the chair"); this carries the information that the noun is 3744: 3545: 1185: 291: 7850:
Kramer, R. (2016). "The location of gender features in the syntax".
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can be argued to have added new genders to the classical three (see
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with one gender each. For example, Bulgarian has a pair of homonyms
3642:"coward"), always produces masculine nouns. And the German suffixes 3153:. To specify the sex of an animal, an adjective may be added, as in 736:
include masculine and feminine; masculine, feminine, and neuter; or
8259:
The Original Nominal System of Proto-Indoeuropean – Case and Gender
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Similarly, argues Zuckermann, the Israeli neologism for "library",
5726:
The default assignment is the borrowing language's unmarked gender.
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Boroditsky et al. (2003), cited in Pavlidou & Alvanoudi (2013)
7234: 6819: 6150: 5452:.) However, there are exceptions to this principle. For instance, 4810: 4740: 4732: 4711: 4703: 4684: 4657: 4117:
Classical Latin typically made a grammatical feminine gender with
4102: 4019:"doctor", it was straightforward to make the feminine equivalents 3729: 3311: 3299: 3271: 3100: 2293:
in gender with the noun or noun phrase to which they refer (their
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It is a matter of analysis how to draw the line between a single
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Foley, William A.; Van Valin, Robert D. Jr (13 September 1984).
6618:, also make certain additional grammatical distinctions between 4569:
references to people or things of unknown or unspecified gender.
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according to logical or symbolic similarities in their meaning (
2599:, which means "she", or "it" when referring to feminine nouns). 1741: 1358: 857: 7879:
Namepedia Blog – Why Most European Names Ending in A Are Female
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means female's father's sister or female's brother's daughter.
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forms depending on the natural gender of the referent, such as
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Greek nationality names have five possibilities for 'English'.
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or a consonant are mostly masculine, whereas those that end in
3013:
Though the second sentence may appear grammatically incorrect (
2101: 2006: 8013:[Agreement of the predicate with a multiple subject]. 7720: 6201:
and Italian nouns with so-called "mobile gender"), as well as
5547:("tram") is masculine, whereas the cognate loanword in Czech, 5482:
is neuter. Likewise, the word for "boat" is neuter in German (
5287: 3110: 2951:(masculine), meaning "unpleasant (usually old and ugly) woman" 2687: 1416: 792: 44: 8176: 8174: 8032: 7433: 7431: 7429: 7427: 6368:(feminine gender, for women, girls, and female animals), the 5711:"bag" was induced by the feminine gender of the Italian word 5614:
is masculine. The Spanish form contrasts with the Portuguese
4893:
Czech declension § Gender and number of compound phrases
3109:(feminine), regardless of their biological sex. In Russian a 1553:, gender marking is mostly lost on nouns; however, Welsh has 7414: 7412: 7410: 7408: 7406: 7404: 6517:
Certain nonhuman things can be referred to with the pronoun
6337:
There are a few traces of gender marking in Modern English:
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systems. Gender and noun class systems are usually found in
5888:, as well as of the pre-existent Arabic word for "library": 5090:) without any change in meaning and no preference in usage. 4449:) "England", while the less formal are derived from Italian 3021:
pronouns or adjectives. Thus it can never be correct to say
7379:"Glossary of Linguistic Terms: What is grammatical gender?" 6127:, but not English, provide examples of grammatical gender. 3936:
is part of the root of the word, it can be feminine, as in
1536:, but when it is feminine (meaning "sea"), the genitive is 811:
of the noun, or in some cases can be apparently arbitrary.
34:. For methods of minimizing the use of gendered forms, see 6549:
with singular reference is common in practice. The neuter
6512:§ Gender contrasts on human versus sentient referents 6364:(masculine gender, used for men, boys, and male animals), 6192:. A few traces of the neuter remain, such as the distinct 6069:
Conversely, grammatical gender is usually absent from the
5969:
location in an area with languages featuring noun classes;
5436:. (This contrasts with the genders found in German, where 4107:
Statistical data on the Spanish nouns and names ending in
3606:"piece of dough"), or personal nouns from abstract nouns ( 3292:, the gender depends on whether the country name ends in 8540:"The morphology of gender in Hebrew and Arabic numerals" 7939: 7937: 7924: 7922: 7740: 7738: 7593:
Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula; Alvanoudi, Angeliki (2013).
6593: 6587: 6581: 4947:
is the feminine singular form of the definite article).
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are almost all feminine, with a few exceptions, such as
880:
Three possible functions of grammatical gender include:
6803: 6542: 5677:
Borrowed words are assigned gender in one of two ways:
5150:
Some gender shifts are associated with number contrasts
5094:
feminine. This might be because before the creation of
5085: 5073: 5066:, "wilderness") may be either masculine (definite form 5061: 4925:
are often encouraged to memorize a modifier, usually a
4750:'All welcome' is understood to be more general whereas 4269:) "doctor" for both, but with informal female variants 3897:
are feminine), note the many masculine nouns ending in
2735:"grammatical gender" different from natural gender 2640: 2244: 2232: 2220: 2208: 1712:
These related words can be, depending on the language:
824:
These related words can be, depending on the language:
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These examples are based on an example in French from
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Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender
4721:'Some people have the habit of talking to themselves.' 3930:"cleaning") indicates a masculine noun; however, when 1690: 1410: 1404: 899:", only context tells us whether the relative clause ( 6969: 6794:
may behave as an impersonal noun when it refers to a
5925: 5865: 5802: 5275: 5265: 5259: 3216: 3202: 3130: 3118: 2924: 5907: 5895: 5848: 5790: 5769: 3816: 3805: 3786: 3774: 3738: 2359: 2339: 2272: 2260: 1520:. A concrete example is provided by the German word 8248:
How did genders and cases develop in Indo-European?
6984: 5957:languages, whereas classifiers are more typical of 4608:), but other solutions are now often preferred—see 4444: 4432: 4420: 4408: 4396: 4384: 4366: 4351: 4336: 4321: 4306: 4288: 4276: 4264: 4252: 4237: 4225: 3467:("broadcast signal") are feminine because they are 3445:. Nouns in Spanish and Portuguese, as in the other 3433:In other cases, meaning takes precedence: the noun 3084:
Gender contrasts on human versus sentient referents
75:. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 8407:. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 299. 7770: 6998:Exception: Feminine nouns beginning with stressed 6463:. An example of such a marker might be the suffix 6360:(and their possessive forms) are gender specific: 5681:via criteria determined by the borrowing language; 5274:of initial consonant) and plural number (suffixed 4886:noun phrase ("... and ...") may be quite complex. 3981:Nouns can sometimes vary their form to enable the 3492:are feminine. They derive from Latin feminines in 3483:respectively, both grammatically feminine nouns. 2441:For more on these different types of pronoun, see 1542:, because feminine nouns do not take the genitive 5581:("origin") is masculine, but its close relatives 5335:for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate 5194:usually refers to the collection of columns in a 1571:. This only occurs with feminine singular nouns: 1468:) according to the gender of noun they refer to ( 8068: 8066: 8064: 8018:of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 6859: 6853: 6847: 6229:). Finally, some languages, such as English and 6134:had two genders (animate and inanimate), as did 5940:List of languages by type of grammatical genders 5621: 5615: 5582: 5465: 5458:("milk") is masculine in Italian (as are French 4956:plural form of the noun has a different gender. 4257:) "actor" for both male and female in Greek and 3415: 3403: 2966:Normally, such exceptions are a small minority. 2913: 2684:Grammatical gender need not match natural gender 2511: 2500: 1902:In "grammatical" gender, most words that end in 1581:Soft initial mutation caused by gender in Welsh 1549:Gender is sometimes reflected in other ways. In 1434:Grammatical gender can be realized as inflection 1216:Other types of division or subdivision of gender 961:List of languages by type of grammatical genders 8563:The Exceptions: European Male Names Ending in A 7683:"How does our language shape the way we think?" 7629:Chi-Yue Chiu; Ying-yi Hong (16 December 2013). 7624: 7622: 7620: 7194: 7188: 7182: 7173: 7164: 7155: 7149: 7143: 7137: 7128: 7119: 7110: 7101: 7095: 7089: 7083: 7077: 7068: 7059: 7050: 7044: 6130:Research indicates that the earliest stages of 5934:Distribution of gender in the world's languages 5567: 5391: 5141: 5135: 5129: 5123: 5122:. The same goes for a lot of common words like 5113: 5107: 5079: 5067: 5055: 5037: 5031: 5014: 5008: 5002: 4996: 4990: 4984: 4978: 4804: 4798: 4784: 4778: 4751: 4729: 4700: 4638: 3548:often carry a specific gender. For example, in 3028:("a girl" – with female indefinite article) or 2238: 2226: 2214: 2202: 2184: 2154: 8438:Grammatical gender: Its Origin and Development 8132: 5684:via criteria determined by the donor language. 5635:("ape") is feminine, whereas the Spanish word 5594: 5588: 5477: 4915:, which typically indicate the gender of noun 2285:Grammatical gender can be realized on pronouns 7773:Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage 7325:"Masculine or Feminine? (And Why It Matters)" 7029: 7023: 7017: 7011: 7005: 6999: 6963: 6933: 6776:("good cheeses"; nominative and accusative); 6653:, whereas in the case of inanimates some use 6196: 5919: 5796: 5741: 5735: 5712: 5706: 5673:How languages assign gender to borrowed words 5657: 5651: 5636: 5630: 5609: 5608:("team") is feminine, while the Spanish word 5576: 5533: 5527: 5508: 5502: 5489: 5471: 5453: 5254:. Masculine nouns which form their plural by 5233: 5217: 5211: 5205: 5199: 4965: 4863: 4857: 4851: 4845: 4835: 4829: 4450: 4162:Differentiation of nouns with human referents 4032: 4026: 4020: 4014: 4008: 4002: 3996: 3990: 3536: 3528: 3519: 3513: 3487: 3478: 3472: 3462: 3456: 3450: 3440: 3434: 3421: 3409: 3393: 3387: 3209: 3195: 3188: 3182: 3160: 3154: 3141:) (feminine). In French, a giraffe is always 3136: 3124: 3104: 3094: 2935: 2438:is usually used for "he" and "she" as well.) 2433: 1915: 1909: 1903: 1770: 1764: 1288: 1147: 1141: 1135: 1129: 1123: 766: 760: 666: 8: 8526:Gender in English pronouns: Myth and reality 8371:The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 8180: 8011:"Shoda přísudku s podmětem několikanásobným" 7437: 7418: 6957: 6951: 6939: 6789: 6777: 6771: 6762: 6756: 6747: 6741: 6728: 6722: 6709: 6708:("good cheese"; nominative and accusative); 6703: 6694: 6688: 6679: 6673: 6660: 6654: 6648: 6602:. However, some of the languages, including 6531:Gender in English § Metaphorical gender 5913: 5901: 5889: 5883: 5877: 5871: 5842: 5833: 5827: 5821: 5808: 5763: 5645: 5603: 5557: 5542: 5518: 5483: 5459: 5443: 5437: 5409: 5403: 5397: 5382: 5376: 5189: 5179: 5173: 5167: 5161: 5155: 4972: 4942: 4936: 4930: 4675:) had met in the forest when the old woman ( 4590:, whereas the masculine gender is unmarked. 4581: 4575: 3973: 3967: 3961: 3955: 3949: 3943: 3937: 3931: 3925: 3919: 3913: 3904: 3898: 3892: 3886: 3880: 3874: 3868: 3862: 3856: 3850: 3844: 3838: 3829: 3811: 3800: 3781: 3768: 3751: 3733: 3649: 3643: 3637: 3631: 3625: 3619: 3613: 3607: 3601: 3595: 3585: 3575: 3569: 3563: 3557: 3251: 3245: 3237:) may be used as they would be for a human. 3148: 3142: 3029: 3022: 2993: 2974: 2946: 2882: 2876: 2838: 2832: 2823: 2625: 2572: 2552: 2547:in "It's raining" and "It's nice to relax." 2475: 2466: 2369: 2349: 2190: 2178: 2172: 2160: 1537: 1531: 1385:people". A more general type of classifier ( 1252:How gender contrasts can influence cognition 1028: 1022: 946: 940: 7588: 7586: 7251: 7249: 6978: 6945: 5663: 5548: 5431: 5425: 5245: 5239: 5227: 5226:Latin neuter nouns from which they derive: 4615:In languages with a neuter gender, such as 4438: 4426: 4414: 4402: 4390: 4378: 4360: 4345: 4330: 4315: 4300: 4282: 4270: 4258: 4246: 4231: 4219: 4130: 4124: 4118: 3694: 3688: 3687:are always masculine, whereas those ending 3682: 3676: 3670: 3499: 3493: 2957: 2902: 2896: 2722:. Unsourced material may be challenged and 2660:Grammatical gender can match natural gender 2588: 1664: 1650: 1640: 1625: 1615: 1602: 1328: 965:Common systems of gender contrast include: 8037:(in Spanish). Real Academia Española. 2005 7028:"the beautiful eagle"), or in the plural ( 6761:("good dogs"; nominative and accusative); 6533:. This usage is considered a metaphorical 5979:moderate to high morphological complexity; 5198:). Further examples are the Italian words 2881:, originally 'lady', feminine of obsolete 1697:Grammatical gender as agreement or concord 897:a flowerbed in the garden which I maintain 673: 659: 146: 8517:An overview of the grammar of Old English 8505:http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/237 8484:http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/223 8224: 7282: 7280: 7278: 7276: 7257:"WALS Online - Chapter Number of Genders" 7219:There are different views whether or not 6884:Gender neutrality in genderless languages 6874:Gender agreement in binomial nomenclature 6804:§ Contextual determination of gender 6543:§ Contextual determination of gender 6190:Vulgar Latin § Loss of neuter gender 5526:Russian also has two words for "potato": 5448:"moon" is masculine, as well as in other 4995:is "an assembly". (The parliament is the 4648:) höfðu hist í skóginum þegar kerlingin ( 3747:") and certain masculine personal names ( 3260:Syntactic structure of grammatical gender 2786:Learn how and when to remove this message 2641:§ Contextual determination of gender 2432:for "it", but in the colloquial language 1925:Example of grammatical gender in Spanish 1220:Some gender contrasts are referred to as 1184:The dialect of the old Norwegian capital 972:masculine–feminine–neuter gender contrast 135:Learn how and when to remove this message 27:Grammatical system of noun classification 8149:. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 6424:, with the occasional exception such as 5370:Gender can vary across related languages 5026:word with multiple genders and a set of 3759:). However, many masculine nouns have a 3504:. The opposite is correct with Northern 1923: 1793: 1691:§ Form-based morphological criteria 1579: 909:) is neuter, whereas that for "garden" ( 8385:Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar 8298: 8192: 8055: 7955: 7943: 7928: 7913: 7901: 7889: 7756: 7744: 7546: 7510: 7395: 7353: 7351: 7349: 7347: 7345: 7310: 7212: 6925: 6647:animates always form their genitive in 5689:Borrowing language can determine gender 4834:) for naturally masculine nouns (as in 4437:). The formal forms come from the name 2918:(masculine), meaning "voluptuous woman" 2133:Gender inflection and number inflection 1425:The manifestation of grammatical gender 149: 8147:Linguistic diversity in space and time 4507: 3706:, nouns whose singular form ends in a 8531:Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg 7777:. Merriam-Webster Inc. 1994. p.  7373: 7371: 7369: 6313: 5650:is feminine, but the Spanish cognate 4876: 3948:. On the other hand, nouns ending in 2474:("I am strong", spoken by a female); 2035: 1940: 1795:Example of natural gender in Spanish 1593: 1590: 1587: 1446:Grammatical gender as noun inflection 1237: 733: 7: 8523:Wagner, Susanne (Winter 2002–2003). 5990:Grammatical gender is found in many 4710:) hafa þann sið að tala við sjálfa ( 4683:) was a young girl and the emperor ( 4057: 3662:in English) produce feminine nouns. 3268:Categorization of nouns into genders 2720:adding citations to reliable sources 2183:) but only one in plural (Bulgarian 73:adding citations to reliable sources 8557:doi: Grammatical Features Inventory 7559:McWhorter, John H. (1 April 2014). 7107: 6858:means opposite-gender sibling, and 5902: 5890: 5854: 5843: 5814: 5775: 5764: 5750:Donor language can determine gender 4941:, and that it is feminine (because 3835: 3812: 3801: 3782: 3769: 3752: 3748: 3734: 3581: 3170: 2370: 2350: 2253: 2142: 791:" or non-humanness, and biological 7595:"Grammatical Gender and Cognition" 6894:Gender-neutral language in English 5762:" language: the Israeli neologism 5325:for transliterated languages, and 5305:of its non-English content, using 5046:Some gender shifts are meaningless 4558:Contextual determination of gender 3780:("male professor") has the plural 2999:(n.) ist aus der Schule gekommen. 2980:(n.) ist aus der Schule gekommen. 2557:("it rains, it's raining"), where 2499:" very grateful", said by a male: 1209: 1099: 1038: 1016:Masculine–feminine–neuter contrast 969:masculine–feminine gender contrast 25: 8034:Diccionario panhispánico de dudas 7802:López-Arias, Julio (1996). "10". 5488:), but common gender in Swedish ( 4983:have diverged further: masculine 4960:Some gender shifts are meaningful 4099:Differentiation of personal names 3370:Form-based morphological criteria 1294: 1177:), and to some extent Dutch (see 975:animate–inanimate gender contrast 798:However, in most languages, this 8436:Ibrahim, Muhammad Hasan (1973). 8403:Franceschina, Florencia (2005). 7853:Language and Linguistics Compass 6935:hombría, virilidad, masculinidad 6746:("good customers"; nominative); 5292: 5143:En jente, jenta, jenter, jentene 3147:, whereas an elephant is always 2962:(neuter), meaning "a young girl" 2901:(masculine) meaning "girl", and 2692: 2449:, and in relation to English at 2357:"I love you", said to a female: 1284: 300:Singulative-Collective-Plurative 49: 8016:Institute of the Czech Language 7016:despite their feminine gender ( 7010:"eagle", also take the article 6826:. For further information, see 6678:("good customer"; nominative); 6052:Australian Aboriginal languages 4899:Arbitrary conventional criteria 4868:usually make this unnecessary. 4809:'nursery school teacher' (both 4789:'nursery school teacher' (both 4656:) var ung stúlka og keisarinn ( 4459:Meaning-based semantic criteria 2812:("girl"); this is derived from 2647:Grammatical vs. natural gender 2426:is used for "he" and "she" and 1709:the "target" of these changes. 1504:. For example, a language like 876:Functions of grammatical gender 693:system is a specific form of a 60:needs additional citations for 8430:A Course in Modern Linguistics 8388:. Cambridge University Press. 8281:, 15th edition, 2003, p. 356. 7804:Test Yourself: Spanish Grammar 7710:"Y Treigladau – The Mutations" 7290:A course in modern linguistics 7088:"horn"). However, the endings 6387:for persons, corresponding to 5507:("moon") is feminine, whereas 5341:multilingual support templates 4477: 3909:, which when added to a verb ( 3316:Gender in European languages: 3244:, a few general words such as 2674:("woman") is feminine whereas 2337:"I love you", said to a male: 1245: 264:Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) 1: 8463:, William Morrow and Company. 8356:Corbett, Greville G. (1991). 8332:Spanish: An Essential Grammar 8313:Wuvulu Grammar and Vocabulary 8205:Audring, Jenny (2008-10-01). 5626:, both of which are feminine. 5184:in the singular is usually a 5078:) or feminine (definite form 4989:is "a thing", whereas neuter 4476:use this system as described 2907:(feminine) meaning "stallion" 2527:Indefinite and dummy pronouns 2480:(the same spoken by a male). 978:common–neuter gender contrast 8423:Universals of Human Language 7831:L'Huillier, Monique (1999). 7632:Social Psychology of Culture 6223:Gender in Danish and Swedish 5381:; masculine, as with German 5109:En sol, solen, soler, solene 4828:there is a distinct ending ( 2929:(masculine), meaning "woman" 2864:(masculine), meaning "woman" 2593:(where the dummy pronoun is 2510:the same, said by a female: 1417: 1175:Gender in Danish and Swedish 8428:Hockett, Charles F. (1958) 8278:The Chicago Manual of Style 7362:. Lingua. pp. 105–111. 6985: 6970: 5926: 5908: 5896: 5866: 5849: 5803: 5791: 5770: 5742: 5599:from Galician are feminine. 5115:Ei sol, sola, soler, solene 5086: 5074: 5062: 4445: 4433: 4421: 4409: 4397: 4385: 4367: 4352: 4337: 4322: 4307: 4289: 4277: 4265: 4253: 4238: 4226: 4013:"member of parliament" and 3817: 3806: 3787: 3775: 3739: 3533:(His daughter is my friend) 3217: 3203: 3131: 3119: 2360: 2340: 2333:(though not in the first): 2245: 2233: 2221: 2209: 1759:As an example, we consider 1301:Related linguistic concepts 1195:The same does not apply to 1102:). Modern examples include 983:Masculine–feminine contrast 380:Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) 8600: 8559:at Surrey Morphology Group 8362:Cambridge University Press 8352:. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. 8348:Craig, Colette G. (1986). 8133:Foley & Van Valin 1984 7971:The Morphosyntax of Gender 7837:Cambridge University Press 7043:The characteristic ending 6852:means 'sister of female', 6693:("good dog"; nominative); 6356:The third-person singular 6341:Some words take different 6323: 5937: 5238:, with nominative plurals 5019:are the regional courts.) 4826:weak adjectival declension 4502:Another African language, 3630:"convict") or adjectives ( 1585: 1411: 1405: 1346: 1309: 1255: 1085:Animate–inanimate contrast 958: 939:, but disagree in gender: 29: 8425:, Vol. 4, pp. 47–82. 8226:10.1007/s11525-009-9124-y 8145:Nichols, Johanna (1992). 7464:10.1515/9783110802603.689 7287:Hockett, Charles (1958). 7195: 7189: 7183: 7174: 7165: 7156: 7150: 7144: 7138: 7129: 7120: 7111: 7102: 7096: 7090: 7084: 7078: 7076:are plurals of masculine 7069: 7060: 7051: 7045: 6979: 6964: 6899:Gender-specific job title 6752:(accusative and genitive) 6699:(accusative and genitive) 6684:(accusative and genitive) 5933: 5920: 5736: 5534: 5528: 5509: 5503: 5476:is feminine and Romanian 5080: 5068: 5056: 5032: 4439: 4427: 4415: 4403: 4391: 4379: 4361: 4346: 4331: 4316: 4301: 4283: 4271: 4259: 4247: 4232: 4220: 4194:English occupation names 3584:). Similarly, the suffix 3512:. For example, the words 3348:according to their form ( 3210: 3196: 3159:("a female cheetah"), or 3137: 3125: 2239: 2227: 2215: 2203: 2185: 2161: 2155: 2148: 2084: 2038: 1989: 1943: 1935: 1932: 1929: 1853: 1807: 1802: 1799: 1636: 1598: 1224:; for some examples, see 7228:Grammatisches Kompendium 6308:On the other hand, some 5532:which is masculine, and 4923:Second-language learners 4911:. (This is reflected in 4862:or its possessive forms 4522:Mostly semantic criteria 4467:Strict semantic criteria 4213:for both male and female 4189:for both male and female 3985:of differently gendered 3924:; nettoyer "to clean" → 3910: 3821:) are always masculine. 3594:from uncountable nouns ( 2940:(neuter), meaning "girl" 2846:Other examples include: 1485:. In some languages the 1152:with a masculine gender. 935:("skin") are homophones 503:Serial verb construction 8330:Bradley, Peter (2004). 8084:Oxford University Press 7987:Gender across languages 7833:Advanced French Grammar 7567:Oxford University Press 6953:Männlichkeit, Virilität 6909:Grammatical conjugation 6879:Gender-neutral language 6860: 6854: 6848: 6594: 6588: 6582: 6559:Gender-neutral language 6305:have lost it entirely. 6227:Gender in Dutch grammar 6125:Indo-European languages 5992:Indo-European languages 5541:In Polish the loanword 5442:"sun" is feminine, and 5284:Gender across languages 4610:Gender-neutral language 4566:groups of mixed gender; 4483:Another example is the 4245:Greek occupation names 2859: 2853: 2447:Gender-neutral language 2265:"children" is feminine 1844:the.MASC.SG grandfather 1591:After definite article 1179:Gender in Dutch grammar 1089:Here nouns that denote 734:Common gender divisions 441:Honorifics (politeness) 40:Gender (disambiguation) 36:Gender-neutral language 8501:10.5281/zenodo.3446230 8480:10.5281/zenodo.3446224 7358:Dixon, Robert (1968). 7223:always have a gender: 7030: 7024: 7018: 7012: 7006: 7000: 6958: 6952: 6946: 6940: 6934: 6790: 6778: 6772: 6763: 6757: 6748: 6742: 6729: 6723: 6710: 6704: 6695: 6689: 6680: 6674: 6661: 6655: 6649: 6268: 6262: 6256: 6250: 6217:(and, to some extent, 6197: 6038:, etc.), and in other 5914: 5884: 5878: 5872: 5834: 5828: 5822: 5809: 5797: 5713: 5707: 5664: 5658: 5652: 5646: 5637: 5631: 5622: 5616: 5610: 5604: 5595: 5589: 5583: 5577: 5568: 5558: 5549: 5543: 5519: 5490: 5484: 5478: 5472: 5466: 5460: 5454: 5444: 5438: 5432: 5426: 5410: 5404: 5398: 5392: 5383: 5377: 5276: 5266: 5260: 5246: 5240: 5234: 5228: 5218: 5212: 5206: 5200: 5190: 5180: 5174: 5168: 5162: 5156: 5142: 5136: 5130: 5124: 5114: 5108: 5038: 5015: 5009: 5003: 4997: 4991: 4985: 4979: 4973: 4966: 4943: 4937: 4931: 4864: 4858: 4852: 4846: 4836: 4830: 4805: 4799: 4785: 4779: 4752: 4730: 4701: 4639: 4582: 4576: 4451: 4170:English proper names: 4131: 4125: 4119: 4111: 4033: 4027: 4021: 4015: 4009: 4003: 3997: 3991: 3974: 3968: 3962: 3956: 3950: 3944: 3938: 3932: 3926: 3920: 3914: 3905: 3899: 3893: 3887: 3881: 3875: 3869: 3863: 3857: 3851: 3845: 3839: 3830: 3695: 3689: 3683: 3677: 3671: 3650: 3644: 3638: 3632: 3626: 3620: 3614: 3608: 3602: 3596: 3586: 3576: 3570: 3564: 3558: 3541:(His son is my friend) 3538:Kurrê wî hevalê min e. 3537: 3529: 3520: 3514: 3500: 3494: 3488: 3486:Most Spanish nouns in 3479: 3473: 3463: 3457: 3451: 3441: 3435: 3422: 3416: 3410: 3404: 3394: 3388: 3341: 3330:: masculine/feminine. 3309: 3297: 3252: 3246: 3189: 3183: 3161: 3155: 3149: 3143: 3105: 3095: 3075: 3069: 3063: 3057: 3051: 3045: 3039: 3031: 3024: 2994: 2975: 2958: 2947: 2936: 2925: 2914: 2903: 2897: 2883: 2877: 2870: 2839: 2833: 2824: 2813: 2807: 2675: 2669: 2631: 2630:meaning "person", and 2626: 2619: 2613: 2607: 2594: 2589: 2578: 2573: 2558: 2553: 2512: 2501: 2485:null-subject languages 2476: 2467: 2460: 2434: 2427: 2421: 2403: 2393: 2379: 2273: 2261: 2191: 2179: 2173: 2166: 2107: 2090: 2061: 2044: 2012: 1995: 1966: 1949: 1916: 1910: 1904: 1890:the.FEM.SG grandmother 1876: 1859: 1830: 1813: 1786: 1780: 1771: 1765: 1706:grammatical categories 1665: 1651: 1641: 1626: 1616: 1603: 1572: 1558: 1538: 1532: 1521: 1329: 1289: 1280: 1157:Common–neuter contrast 1148: 1142: 1136: 1130: 1124: 1029: 1023: 947: 941: 930: 924: 910: 904: 772: 767: 761: 618:Polypersonal agreement 38:. For other uses, see 8584:Linguistic morphology 8460:The Language Instinct 8377:. pp. 1347–1353. 7603:James Cook University 6941:masculinité, virilité 6474:. The choice between 6157:, Ancient and Modern 6064:Niger–Congo languages 6050:, as well as several 6028:Afroasiatic languages 5961:. Thus, according to 5818: painting brush 5781:) is fitted into the 5523:, which is masculine. 5402:is masculine whereas 5387:; or neuter, as with 5188:, whereas the plural 4691:) was only a prince.' 4106: 3699:are always feminine. 3580:("young woman") (see 3530:Keça wî hevala min e. 3428:form-meaning mismatch 3335:: animate/inanimate. 3315: 3303: 3275: 3015:constructio ad sensum 2195:) . As a consequence 1387:classifier handshapes 1258:Linguistic relativity 1010:Afroasiatic languages 746: 254:Genitive construction 8106:In a translation of 7723:. 2002. pp. 1–2 7298:Macmillan Publishers 7226:Wilfried Kürschner ( 7142:"factory", feminine 6838:In the Austronesian 6030:(which includes the 5976:-marking morphology; 5593:(from Asturian) and 5339:. Knowledge (XXG)'s 5303:specify the language 5301:This section should 3795:: for instance, the 3761:"broken" plural form 3386:, nouns that end in 3320:: no gender system. 3032:diese kleine Mädchen 2716:improve this section 2443:Third-person pronoun 1930:"Grammatical" gender 1563:"girl" changes into 1379:East Asian languages 1104:Algonquian languages 1002:Indo-Aryan languages 700:grammatical category 507:Traditional grammar 475:Syntax relationships 151:Grammatical features 84:"Grammatical gender" 69:improve this article 8121:Alexander Vertinsky 8074:Zuckermann, Ghil'ad 7323:Jackson, Steven B. 7148:"woman" and neuter 6904:Generic antecedents 6840:Wuvulu-Aua language 6816:Dravidian languages 6395:, and the singular 6132:Proto-Indo-European 6105:language families. 6048:Northeast Caucasian 5959:isolating languages 5668:, which was neuter. 5587:(from Portuguese), 5470:), whereas Spanish 5264:("small boy"), but 4919:where applicable.) 4588:semantically marked 4474:Dravidian languages 4218:Greek proper names 2604:indefinite pronouns 1926: 1796: 1736:, past and passive 1599:Masculine singular 1582: 1462:change their form ( 1242:Dravidian languages 1096:Anatolian languages 1035:Proto-Indo-European 848:, past and passive 425:Comparison (degree) 175:Dative construction 32:Language and gender 8579:Grammatical gender 8311:Hafford, James A. 8264:2013-10-30 at the 7866:10.1111/lnc3.12226 7193:"hand" and neuter 6914:Polarity of gender 6628:Russian declension 6437:Germanic languages 6373:they/them/their(s) 5755:Ghil'ad Zuckermann 5703:Ghil'ad Zuckermann 5538:which is feminine. 5450:Germanic languages 4856:and the reflexive 4800:hjúkrunarfræðingur 4664:) óbreyttur prins. 4621:Germanic languages 4112: 3828:, nouns ending in 3669:, nouns ending in 3556:with the suffixes 3342: 3310: 3298: 3165:("a male zebra"). 3156:un guepardo hembra 3099:(masculine) and a 3007:(f.) Hausaufgaben. 2988:(n.) Hausaufgaben. 2800:grammatical gender 2636:meaning "thing"). 2590:mae hi'n bwrw glaw 2541:pro-drop languages 2026:the.MASC.PL dishes 1924: 1794: 1637:Feminine singular 1580: 1402:Chinese classifier 1389:) can be found in 1335:(also the root of 1047:Germanic languages 773: 755:, adjectives, and 710:of that language. 691:grammatical gender 375:Grammatical aspect 8565:at NamepediA Blog 8494:978-3-96110-181-8 8472:978-3-96110-179-5 8395:978-0-521-26904-9 8181:Franceschina 2005 7646:978-1-317-71018-9 7576:978-0-19-936160-1 7562:The Language Hoax 7549:, pp. 20–21. 7513:, pp. 27–28. 7456:Mouton de Gruyter 7454:. Vol. 124. 7438:Franceschina 2005 7419:Franceschina 2005 7398:, p. 27, 52. 7187:"king", feminine 6800:Polish morphology 6447:in words such as 6412:their modifiers ( 6403:corresponding to 6381:relative pronouns 6358:personal pronouns 6326:Gender in English 6320:Germanic: English 6186:Romance languages 6040:language families 5629:The Italian word 5575:The Spanish word 5501:The Russian word 5422:Romance languages 5363: 5362: 5343:may also be used. 5224:second declension 5096:Norwegian Nynorsk 4040:In the same way, 3995:means "boy", and 3867:are masculine as 3818:faʿʿala, yufaʿʿil 3799:of Stem II (e.g. 3712:(traditionally a 3654:(comparable with 3447:Romance languages 3325:: common/neuter. 3074:("wuss, klutz"); 3003:(f.) macht jetzt 2984:(n.) macht jetzt 2890:, meaning 'lord') 2830:diminutive suffix 2796: 2795: 2788: 2770: 2311:personal pronouns 2301:Personal pronouns 2277:"door" is neuter 2268:singularia tantum 2252:Other languages, 2237:, "spectacles"), 2130: 2129: 2121:the.FEM.PL guitar 2075:the.FEM.SG guitar 1899: 1898: 1893:"the grandmother" 1847:"the grandfather" 1785:(masculine), and 1683: 1682: 1530:singular form is 1353:A classifier, or 1228:. In some of the 1201:Norwegian Nynorsk 1055:Romance languages 990:Romance languages 683: 682: 578:Topic and Comment 561:Thematic relation 456:Reflexive pronoun 370:Tense–aspect–mood 330:Associated motion 312:Universal grinder 145: 144: 137: 119: 16:(Redirected from 8591: 8553: 8551: 8545:. 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7314: 7308: 7302: 7301: 7295: 7284: 7271: 7270: 7268: 7267: 7253: 7244: 7217: 7200: 7198: 7197: 7192: 7191: 7186: 7185: 7180: 7179: 7171: 7170: 7162: 7161: 7153: 7152: 7147: 7146: 7141: 7140: 7135: 7134: 7126: 7125: 7117: 7116: 7109: 7105: 7104: 7099: 7098: 7093: 7092: 7087: 7086: 7081: 7080: 7075: 7074: 7066: 7065: 7057: 7056: 7048: 7047: 7041: 7035: 7033: 7027: 7021: 7015: 7009: 7003: 6996: 6990: 6989:), among others. 6988: 6982: 6981: 6976: 6974: 6967: 6966: 6961: 6955: 6949: 6943: 6937: 6930: 6863: 6857: 6851: 6824:collective nouns 6793: 6781: 6775: 6766: 6760: 6751: 6749:dobrych klientów 6745: 6732: 6726: 6713: 6707: 6698: 6692: 6683: 6677: 6664: 6658: 6652: 6636:Czech declension 6597: 6591: 6585: 6578:Slavic languages 6572:Slavic languages 6535:figure of speech 6310:Slavic languages 6207:Celtic languages 6200: 6147:Slavic languages 6036:Berber languages 6026:, for example), 5929: 5923: 5922: 5917: 5911: 5905: 5904: 5899: 5893: 5892: 5887: 5881: 5875: 5869: 5863: 5862: biblioték 5859: 5856: 5852: 5846: 5845: 5838:, all feminine. 5837: 5831: 5825: 5819: 5816: 5812: 5806: 5800: 5794: 5780: 5777: 5773: 5767: 5766: 5745: 5739: 5738: 5716: 5710: 5667: 5661: 5655: 5649: 5644:The French word 5640: 5634: 5625: 5619: 5613: 5607: 5602:The French word 5598: 5592: 5586: 5580: 5571: 5561: 5556:The Polish word 5552: 5546: 5537: 5536: 5531: 5530: 5522: 5512: 5511: 5506: 5505: 5493: 5487: 5481: 5475: 5469: 5463: 5457: 5447: 5441: 5435: 5429: 5413: 5407: 5401: 5395: 5386: 5380: 5358: 5355: 5349: 5334: 5328: 5324: 5318: 5314: 5308: 5296: 5295: 5288: 5279: 5269: 5263: 5249: 5243: 5237: 5231: 5221: 5215: 5209: 5203: 5193: 5183: 5177: 5171: 5166:("delight") and 5165: 5159: 5145: 5139: 5133: 5127: 5120:Norwegian Bokmål 5117: 5111: 5100:Norwegian Bokmål 5089: 5083: 5082: 5077: 5071: 5070: 5065: 5059: 5058: 5041: 5035: 5034: 5018: 5012: 5006: 5000: 4994: 4988: 4982: 4976: 4969: 4946: 4940: 4934: 4927:definite article 4867: 4861: 4855: 4849: 4843: 4833: 4816: 4812: 4808: 4806:leikskólakennari 4802: 4796: 4792: 4788: 4782: 4771: 4768: 4764: 4760: 4756: 4749: 4746: 4742: 4738: 4734: 4720: 4717: 4713: 4709: 4705: 4690: 4686: 4682: 4678: 4674: 4670: 4666: 4663: 4659: 4655: 4651: 4647: 4643: 4585: 4579: 4454: 4448: 4442: 4441: 4436: 4430: 4429: 4424: 4418: 4417: 4412: 4406: 4405: 4400: 4394: 4393: 4388: 4382: 4381: 4370: 4364: 4363: 4355: 4349: 4348: 4340: 4334: 4333: 4325: 4319: 4318: 4310: 4304: 4303: 4292: 4286: 4285: 4280: 4274: 4273: 4268: 4262: 4261: 4256: 4250: 4249: 4241: 4235: 4234: 4229: 4223: 4222: 4134: 4128: 4122: 4059: 4036: 4030: 4024: 4018: 4012: 4006: 4000: 3994: 3977: 3971: 3965: 3959: 3953: 3947: 3941: 3935: 3929: 3923: 3917: 3912: 3908: 3902: 3896: 3890: 3884: 3878: 3872: 3866: 3860: 3854: 3848: 3842: 3837: 3833: 3820: 3815: 3814: 3809: 3804: 3803: 3790: 3785: 3784: 3778: 3772: 3771: 3755: 3754: 3750: 3742: 3737: 3736: 3727: 3719: 3698: 3692: 3686: 3680: 3674: 3653: 3647: 3641: 3635: 3629: 3623: 3617: 3611: 3605: 3599: 3589: 3579: 3573: 3567: 3561: 3540: 3532: 3523: 3517: 3506:Kurdish language 3503: 3497: 3491: 3482: 3476: 3466: 3460: 3454: 3444: 3438: 3425: 3419: 3413: 3407: 3397: 3391: 3378:For example, in 3255: 3249: 3220: 3213: 3212: 3206: 3199: 3198: 3193:"bull", Russian 3192: 3186: 3172: 3164: 3158: 3152: 3146: 3140: 3139: 3134: 3128: 3127: 3122: 3108: 3098: 3034: 3027: 3009: 2990: 2961: 2950: 2939: 2928: 2917: 2906: 2900: 2889: 2880: 2842: 2836: 2827: 2791: 2784: 2780: 2777: 2771: 2769: 2728: 2696: 2688: 2629: 2592: 2576: 2556: 2518: 2507: 2479: 2473: 2437: 2373: 2372: 2366: 2353: 2352: 2346: 2276: 2264: 2255: 2248: 2242: 2241: 2236: 2230: 2229: 2224: 2218: 2217: 2212: 2206: 2205: 2194: 2188: 2187: 2182: 2176: 2164: 2163: 2158: 2157: 2152: 2144: 2103: 2099: 2057: 2053: 2008: 2004: 1980:the.MASC.SG dish 1962: 1958: 1927: 1921: 1919: 1913: 1907: 1872: 1868: 1826: 1822: 1800:"Natural" gender 1797: 1777:definite article 1774: 1768: 1676: 1658: 1644: 1629: 1619: 1606: 1583: 1569:definite article 1555:initial mutation 1541: 1535: 1518:Latin declension 1420: 1414: 1413: 1408: 1407: 1343:Noun classifiers 1334: 1296: 1292: 1286: 1230:Slavic languages 1205:Norwegian Bokmål 1190:Norwegian Bokmål 1151: 1145: 1139: 1133: 1127: 1116:Kurdish language 1051:Slavic languages 1032: 1026: 998:Celtic languages 994:Baltic languages 955:Gender contrasts 950: 944: 938: 901:which I maintain 770: 764: 675: 668: 661: 409:General features 324:Related to verbs 159:Related to nouns 147: 140: 133: 129: 126: 120: 118: 77: 53: 45: 21: 8599: 8598: 8594: 8593: 8592: 8590: 8589: 8588: 8569: 8568: 8549: 8542: 8537: 8522: 8513: 8503:. 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Open Access. 8435: 8415: 8402: 8396: 8381: 8368: 8355: 8342: 8329: 8326: 8321: 8320: 8310: 8309: 8305: 8297: 8293: 8275: 8271: 8266:Wayback Machine 8257: 8253: 8246: 8242: 8204: 8203: 8199: 8191: 8187: 8179: 8172: 8157: 8144: 8143: 8139: 8131: 8127: 8118: 8114: 8105: 8101: 8094: 8072: 8071: 8062: 8054: 8050: 8040: 8038: 8030: 8029: 8025: 8009: 8008: 8004: 7997: 7984: 7983: 7979: 7967: 7966: 7962: 7954: 7950: 7942: 7935: 7927: 7920: 7912: 7908: 7900: 7896: 7888: 7884: 7877: 7873: 7860:(11): 661–677. 7849: 7848: 7844: 7830: 7829: 7825: 7818: 7801: 7800: 7796: 7789: 7769: 7767: 7763: 7755: 7751: 7743: 7736: 7726: 7724: 7712: 7708: 7707: 7703: 7693: 7691: 7677: 7676: 7672: 7667: 7663: 7658: 7654: 7647: 7639:. p. 120. 7628: 7627: 7618: 7608: 7606: 7597: 7592: 7591: 7584: 7577: 7558: 7557: 7553: 7545: 7541: 7532: 7530: 7522: 7521: 7517: 7509: 7505: 7496: 7494: 7486: 7485: 7481: 7474: 7458:. p. 689. 7449: 7448: 7444: 7436: 7425: 7417: 7402: 7394: 7390: 7377: 7376: 7367: 7357: 7356: 7343: 7333: 7331: 7322: 7321: 7317: 7309: 7305: 7293: 7286: 7285: 7274: 7265: 7263: 7255: 7254: 7247: 7239:Duden Grammatik 7221:pluralia tantum 7218: 7214: 7209: 7204: 7203: 7181:from masculine 7136:from masculine 7042: 7038: 7025:la bella águila 6997: 6993: 6972: 6931: 6927: 6922: 6870: 6836: 6812: 6782:(genitive only) 6767:(genitive only) 6714:(genitive only) 6681:dobrego klienta 6586:and neuters in 6574: 6347:waiter/waitress 6328: 6322: 6194:Spanish pronoun 6121: 6103:Native American 5982:non-accusative 5972:preference for 5963:Johanna Nichols 5942: 5936: 5861: 5860: – transl. 5857: 5817: 5778: 5752: 5691: 5675: 5464:and Portuguese 5408:is neuter, and 5372: 5366:borrowed word. 5359: 5353: 5350: 5344: 5332: 5326: 5322: 5320:transliteration 5316: 5312: 5306: 5297: 5293: 5286: 5252:Scottish Gaelic 5152: 5112:, or feminine: 5048: 4962: 4953: 4901: 4560: 4524: 4469: 4461: 4164: 4101: 3618:"punishment" → 3592:countable nouns 3372: 3336: 3331: 3326: 3321: 3306:Polish language 3270: 3262: 3167:Different names 3162:una cebra macho 3086: 2922:Scottish Gaelic 2792: 2781: 2775: 2772: 2729: 2727: 2713: 2697: 2686: 2662: 2649: 2618:("no-one") and 2567:comes from the 2529: 2420:, for example, 2303: 2287: 2279:pluralia tantum 2198:pluralia tantum 2135: 2126: 2113: 2105: 2080: 2067: 2059: 2031: 2018: 2010: 1985: 1972: 1964: 1901: 1895: 1882: 1874: 1849: 1836: 1828: 1750:complementizers 1699: 1679:"the big girl" 1594:With adjective 1474:parts of speech 1448: 1436: 1427: 1351: 1349:Noun classifier 1345: 1314: 1308: 1303: 1260: 1254: 1218: 1159: 1087: 1018: 985: 963: 957: 878: 866:complementizers 787:or inanimacy, " 771:, respectively. 740:and inanimate. 728: 679: 650: 649: 608: 600: 599: 546: 538: 537: 476: 468: 467: 437:(verbal number) 435:Pluractionality 410: 402: 401: 325: 317: 316: 296: 237:Collective noun 219:Construct state 160: 141: 130: 124: 121: 78: 76: 66: 54: 43: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 8597: 8595: 8587: 8586: 8581: 8571: 8570: 8567: 8566: 8560: 8554: 8552:on 2008-04-14. 8535: 8529:(PhD thesis). 8520: 8519:at ucalgary.ca 8512: 8511:External links 8509: 8508: 8507: 8486: 8464: 8455:Pinker, Steven 8452: 8449: 8442: 8433: 8426: 8419: 8413: 8400: 8394: 8379: 8375:Pergamon Press 8366: 8353: 8346: 8341:978-0415286435 8340: 8334:(1 ed.). 8325: 8322: 8319: 8318: 8303: 8291: 8269: 8251: 8240: 8197: 8185: 8170: 8155: 8137: 8135:, p. 326. 8125: 8112: 8099: 8092: 8060: 8048: 8023: 8002: 7995: 7977: 7974:. p. 144. 7968:Kramer, Ruth. 7960: 7948: 7933: 7918: 7906: 7894: 7882: 7871: 7842: 7839:. p. 401. 7823: 7816: 7810:. p. 85. 7806:(1 ed.). 7794: 7787: 7761: 7749: 7734: 7701: 7681:(2009-06-11). 7670: 7661: 7652: 7645: 7616: 7582: 7575: 7551: 7539: 7515: 7503: 7479: 7472: 7442: 7423: 7400: 7388: 7365: 7341: 7315: 7303: 7300:. p. 231. 7272: 7245: 7243: 7242: 7231: 7211: 7210: 7208: 7205: 7202: 7201: 7036: 7034:"the eagles"). 6991: 6971:muzhestvennost 6965:мужественность 6924: 6923: 6921: 6918: 6917: 6916: 6911: 6906: 6901: 6896: 6891: 6886: 6881: 6876: 6869: 6866: 6835: 6832: 6811: 6808: 6786: 6785: 6784: 6783: 6768: 6753: 6743:dobrzy klienci 6735: 6734: 6718: 6717: 6716: 6715: 6700: 6685: 6667: 6666: 6600:soft consonant 6573: 6570: 6539: 6538: 6515: 6494:With animals, 6439:(the suffixes 6409: 6408: 6354: 6324:Main article: 6321: 6318: 6120: 6117: 6109:Modern English 6060:Kalaw Lagaw Ya 5988: 5987: 5980: 5977: 5970: 5935: 5932: 5751: 5748: 5732: 5731: 5727: 5724: 5721: 5718: 5699: 5690: 5687: 5686: 5685: 5682: 5674: 5671: 5670: 5669: 5642: 5627: 5600: 5573: 5554: 5553:, is feminine. 5539: 5524: 5414:is feminine.) 5371: 5368: 5361: 5360: 5300: 5298: 5291: 5285: 5282: 5267:balaich bheaga 5256:palatalization 5151: 5148: 5047: 5044: 4961: 4958: 4952: 4949: 4900: 4897: 4774: 4773: 4723: 4722: 4693: 4692: 4571: 4570: 4567: 4559: 4556: 4555: 4554: 4550: 4543: 4536: 4523: 4520: 4468: 4465: 4460: 4457: 4375: 4374: 4373: 4372: 4357: 4342: 4327: 4312: 4294: 4243: 4216: 4215: 4214: 4207: 4201: 4192: 4191: 4190: 4183: 4177: 4163: 4160: 4100: 4097: 4042:personal names 3767:; for example 3624:"apprentice", 3590:, which makes 3543: 3542: 3534: 3461:("photo") and 3371: 3368: 3364: 3363: 3360: 3353: 3269: 3266: 3261: 3258: 3250:("animal") or 3085: 3082: 3011: 3010: 2991: 2964: 2963: 2952: 2941: 2930: 2919: 2908: 2891: 2865: 2794: 2793: 2700: 2698: 2691: 2685: 2682: 2661: 2658: 2653:natural gender 2648: 2645: 2528: 2525: 2520: 2519: 2508: 2376: 2375: 2355: 2307:natural gender 2302: 2299: 2286: 2283: 2257:Serbo-Croatian 2213:, "pincers"), 2134: 2131: 2128: 2127: 2106: 2089: 2088: 2086: 2082: 2081: 2060: 2043: 2042: 2040: 2037: 2033: 2032: 2011: 1994: 1993: 1991: 1987: 1986: 1965: 1948: 1947: 1945: 1942: 1938: 1937: 1934: 1931: 1897: 1896: 1875: 1858: 1857: 1855: 1851: 1850: 1829: 1812: 1811: 1809: 1805: 1804: 1801: 1698: 1695: 1681: 1680: 1677: 1662: 1659: 1648: 1645: 1638: 1634: 1633: 1632:"the big son" 1630: 1623: 1620: 1610: 1607: 1600: 1596: 1595: 1592: 1589: 1586: 1447: 1444: 1435: 1432: 1426: 1423: 1391:sign languages 1347:Main article: 1344: 1341: 1310:Main article: 1307: 1304: 1302: 1299: 1253: 1250: 1217: 1214: 1158: 1155: 1154: 1153: 1086: 1083: 1017: 1014: 984: 981: 980: 979: 976: 973: 970: 956: 953: 917: 916: 892: 885: 877: 874: 727: 724: 681: 680: 678: 677: 670: 663: 655: 652: 651: 648: 647: 642: 637: 632: 630:Empty category 627: 622: 621: 620: 609: 606: 605: 602: 601: 598: 597: 592: 587: 586: 585: 575: 574: 573: 568: 558: 553: 547: 544: 543: 540: 539: 536: 535: 534: 533: 528: 523: 518: 513: 505: 500: 495: 494: 493: 488: 477: 474: 473: 470: 469: 466: 465: 464: 463: 461:Reflexive verb 458: 448: 443: 438: 432: 427: 422: 417: 411: 408: 407: 404: 403: 400: 399: 394: 393: 392: 387: 382: 377: 367: 362: 357: 352: 347: 342: 337: 332: 326: 323: 322: 319: 318: 315: 314: 309: 304: 303: 302: 297: 295: 294: 289: 284: 280: 273: 268: 267: 266: 261: 251: 246: 241: 240: 239: 234: 229: 221: 216: 215: 214: 204: 203: 202: 197: 192: 187: 185:Quirky subject 182: 177: 167: 161: 158: 157: 154: 153: 143: 142: 57: 55: 48: 26: 24: 18:Masculine form 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 8596: 8585: 8582: 8580: 8577: 8576: 8574: 8564: 8561: 8558: 8555: 8548: 8541: 8538:Horesh, Uri. 8536: 8532: 8528: 8527: 8521: 8518: 8515: 8514: 8510: 8506: 8502: 8498: 8495: 8491: 8487: 8485: 8481: 8477: 8473: 8469: 8465: 8462: 8461: 8456: 8453: 8450: 8447: 8443: 8439: 8434: 8431: 8427: 8424: 8420: 8416: 8414:90-272-5298-X 8410: 8406: 8401: 8397: 8391: 8387: 8386: 8380: 8376: 8372: 8367: 8363: 8359: 8354: 8351: 8347: 8343: 8337: 8333: 8328: 8327: 8323: 8315:. p. 63. 8314: 8307: 8304: 8300: 8295: 8292: 8288: 8287:0-226-10403-6 8284: 8280: 8279: 8273: 8270: 8267: 8263: 8260: 8255: 8252: 8249: 8244: 8241: 8236: 8232: 8227: 8222: 8219:(2): 93–116. 8218: 8214: 8213: 8208: 8201: 8198: 8194: 8189: 8186: 8183:, p. 77. 8182: 8177: 8175: 8171: 8166: 8162: 8158: 8156:0-226-58056-3 8152: 8148: 8141: 8138: 8134: 8129: 8126: 8122: 8119:In a song of 8116: 8113: 8110:stories, 1915 8109: 8103: 8100: 8095: 8093:9780199812790 8089: 8085: 8081: 8080: 8075: 8069: 8067: 8065: 8061: 8058:, p. 61. 8057: 8052: 8049: 8036: 8035: 8027: 8024: 8019: 8017: 8012: 8006: 8003: 7998: 7996:90-272-1842-0 7992: 7988: 7981: 7978: 7973: 7972: 7964: 7961: 7958:, p. 19. 7957: 7952: 7949: 7946:, p. 14. 7945: 7940: 7938: 7934: 7931:, p. 32. 7930: 7925: 7923: 7919: 7916:, p. 13. 7915: 7910: 7907: 7904:, p. 12. 7903: 7898: 7895: 7892:, p. 11. 7891: 7886: 7883: 7880: 7875: 7872: 7867: 7863: 7859: 7855: 7854: 7846: 7843: 7838: 7834: 7827: 7824: 7819: 7813: 7809: 7805: 7798: 7795: 7790: 7788:0-87779-132-5 7784: 7780: 7775: 7774: 7765: 7762: 7759:, p. 27. 7758: 7753: 7750: 7747:, p. 18. 7746: 7741: 7739: 7735: 7722: 7718: 7711: 7705: 7702: 7690: 7689: 7684: 7680: 7674: 7671: 7665: 7662: 7656: 7653: 7648: 7642: 7638: 7634: 7633: 7625: 7623: 7621: 7617: 7605: 7604: 7596: 7589: 7587: 7583: 7578: 7572: 7568: 7564: 7563: 7555: 7552: 7548: 7543: 7540: 7529: 7525: 7519: 7516: 7512: 7507: 7504: 7493: 7489: 7483: 7480: 7475: 7473:9783110802603 7469: 7465: 7461: 7457: 7453: 7446: 7443: 7440:, p. 78. 7439: 7434: 7432: 7430: 7428: 7424: 7421:, p. 72. 7420: 7415: 7413: 7411: 7409: 7407: 7405: 7401: 7397: 7392: 7389: 7384: 7380: 7374: 7372: 7370: 7366: 7361: 7354: 7352: 7350: 7348: 7346: 7342: 7330: 7326: 7319: 7316: 7312: 7307: 7304: 7299: 7292: 7291: 7283: 7281: 7279: 7277: 7273: 7262: 7258: 7252: 7250: 7246: 7240: 7236: 7232: 7229: 7225: 7224: 7222: 7216: 7213: 7206: 7178: 7169: 7160: 7133: 7124: 7115: 7073: 7064: 7055: 7040: 7037: 7032: 7026: 7020: 7014: 7008: 7002: 6995: 6992: 6987: 6977:) and Hindi ( 6975: 6960: 6954: 6948: 6942: 6936: 6929: 6926: 6919: 6915: 6912: 6910: 6907: 6905: 6902: 6900: 6897: 6895: 6892: 6890: 6887: 6885: 6882: 6880: 6877: 6875: 6872: 6871: 6867: 6865: 6862: 6856: 6850: 6845: 6841: 6833: 6831: 6829: 6828:Tamil grammar 6825: 6821: 6817: 6809: 6807: 6805: 6801: 6797: 6792: 6780: 6779:dobrych serów 6774: 6769: 6765: 6759: 6754: 6750: 6744: 6739: 6738: 6737: 6736: 6731: 6725: 6720: 6719: 6712: 6706: 6701: 6697: 6691: 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3572: 3566: 3560: 3555: 3551: 3547: 3539: 3535: 3531: 3527: 3526: 3525: 3522: 3518:(member) and 3516: 3511: 3507: 3502: 3498:, accusative 3496: 3490: 3484: 3481: 3480:radiodifusión 3475: 3470: 3465: 3459: 3453: 3448: 3443: 3437: 3431: 3429: 3424: 3418: 3412: 3406: 3401: 3396: 3390: 3385: 3381: 3376: 3369: 3367: 3361: 3358: 3354: 3351: 3350:morphological 3347: 3346: 3345: 3339: 3334: 3329: 3324: 3319: 3314: 3307: 3302: 3295: 3291: 3287: 3283: 3279: 3274: 3267: 3265: 3259: 3257: 3254: 3248: 3243: 3238: 3236: 3232: 3228: 3222: 3219: 3214: 3205: 3200: 3191: 3185: 3180: 3176: 3168: 3163: 3157: 3151: 3145: 3133: 3121: 3116: 3112: 3107: 3102: 3097: 3092: 3083: 3081: 3079: 3078: 3073: 3072: 3067: 3066: 3061: 3060: 3055: 3054: 3049: 3048: 3043: 3042: 3036: 3033: 3026: 3020: 3016: 3008: 3006: 3002: 2998: 2992: 2989: 2987: 2983: 2979: 2973: 2972: 2971: 2967: 2960: 2956: 2953: 2949: 2945: 2942: 2938: 2934: 2931: 2927: 2923: 2920: 2916: 2912: 2909: 2905: 2899: 2895: 2892: 2888: 2887: 2879: 2874: 2873: 2869: 2866: 2863: 2862: 2858:(neuter) and 2857: 2856: 2852: 2849: 2848: 2847: 2844: 2841: 2835: 2831: 2826: 2821: 2817: 2816: 2811: 2810: 2805: 2801: 2790: 2787: 2779: 2768: 2765: 2761: 2758: 2754: 2751: 2747: 2744: 2740: 2737: –  2736: 2732: 2731:Find sources: 2725: 2721: 2717: 2711: 2710: 2706: 2701:This section 2699: 2695: 2690: 2689: 2683: 2681: 2679: 2678: 2673: 2672: 2667: 2659: 2657: 2654: 2646: 2644: 2642: 2637: 2635: 2634: 2628: 2623: 2622: 2621:quelque chose 2617: 2616: 2612:("someone"), 2611: 2610: 2605: 2600: 2598: 2597: 2591: 2586: 2582: 2581: 2575: 2570: 2566: 2562: 2561: 2555: 2548: 2546: 2542: 2538: 2534: 2533:dummy pronoun 2526: 2524: 2517: 2516: 2513:muito obrigad 2509: 2506: 2505: 2502:muito obrigad 2498: 2497: 2496: 2494: 2490: 2487:(and in some 2486: 2481: 2478: 2472: 2471: 2464: 2463: 2457: 2455: 2454: 2448: 2444: 2439: 2436: 2431: 2430: 2425: 2424: 2419: 2415: 2411: 2407: 2406: 2401: 2397: 2396: 2391: 2387: 2383: 2382: 2367: 2365: 2364: 2356: 2347: 2345: 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