Definition of grammatical gender Grammatical gender
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What does grammatical gender mean?
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| grammatical gender - a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | ||
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| grammatical category, syntactic category (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties | ||
| feminine a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | ||
| masculine a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | ||
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grammatical gender
Arbitrarily specified category of a word as used in some languages, governing the agreement between words.
