In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...
99 KB (12,113 words) - 06:24, 3 January 2025
of grammatical gender. Certain language families, such as the Austronesian, Turkic, and Uralic language families, usually have no grammatical genders (see...
26 KB (2,147 words) - 00:54, 11 December 2024
German nouns are included in one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. While the gender often does not directly influence the plural...
14 KB (1,268 words) - 04:48, 28 December 2024
In Spanish, grammatical gender is a linguistic feature that affects different types of words and how they agree with each other. It applies to nouns, adjectives...
13 KB (1,524 words) - 14:01, 23 September 2024
Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender is the usage of wording that is balanced in its treatment of the genders in a non-grammatical sense...
63 KB (7,361 words) - 20:58, 7 January 2025
listener. Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or...
111 KB (11,079 words) - 03:26, 30 December 2024
is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement between nouns...
24 KB (2,699 words) - 20:38, 26 October 2024
A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...
34 KB (4,042 words) - 11:00, 24 November 2024
means to achieve gender neutrality: Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender neutrality in...
31 KB (3,256 words) - 00:52, 5 December 2024
Norwegian language (redirect from Grammatical gender in Norwegian)
patterns (the noun gender system is more pronounced than in Bokmål): There is in general no way to infer what grammatical gender a specific noun has...
83 KB (6,890 words) - 02:00, 22 December 2024
Christian theology, the gender of the Holy Spirit has been the subject of some debate in recent times. The grammatical gender of the word for "spirit"...
20 KB (2,384 words) - 17:42, 23 December 2024
French grammar (redirect from Grammatical gender in French)
present indicative. Every French noun has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The grammatical gender of a noun referring to a human usually...
50 KB (6,306 words) - 19:59, 2 January 2025
the mid-20th century, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories. In the West, in the 1970s, feminist theory...
145 KB (16,310 words) - 08:02, 3 January 2025
fully gender-neutral title. The above applies to gender neutrality in English and in some other languages without grammatical gender (where grammatical gender...
20 KB (2,552 words) - 08:58, 19 December 2024
Personal pronoun (redirect from Gender pronouns)
singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality. The term "personal" is used here purely to signify the grammatical sense; personal...
26 KB (3,394 words) - 18:28, 29 December 2024
Swedish, nouns have two grammatical genders, and pronouns have the same two grammatical genders in addition to two natural genders similar to English. Historically...
7 KB (703 words) - 09:09, 12 November 2024
and the word gender was almost always used to refer to grammatical categories, although there are a small number of examples of gender being used as...
89 KB (9,668 words) - 00:58, 26 December 2024
fashion Gender neutrality Gender-neutral language Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender neutrality...
100 KB (8,830 words) - 23:14, 6 January 2025
Inflection (redirect from Grammatical inflection)
is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness....
62 KB (6,185 words) - 20:18, 31 December 2024
symbol – Person or character widely regarded as sexually attractive grammatical gender – Linguistic system of noun classification In the biological sense...
20 KB (1,861 words) - 17:50, 6 January 2025
conjugations for every verb. Verbs may inflect for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness...
34 KB (2,196 words) - 00:48, 10 November 2024
Noun class (redirect from Rational gender)
referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym...
23 KB (2,728 words) - 02:33, 29 December 2024
Genderless language (category Grammatical gender)
language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement for gender between nouns and associated pronouns...
6 KB (738 words) - 21:32, 6 January 2025
sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially...
17 KB (1,865 words) - 21:27, 29 October 2024
unrelated non-Hamitic "Chadic" based on which languages possessed grammatical gender. On the other hand, the classification also relied on non-linguistic...
108 KB (10,999 words) - 22:07, 5 January 2025
languages, English does not retain grammatical gender and most of its nouns, adjectives and pronouns are therefore not gender-specific. In most other Indo-European...
35 KB (4,091 words) - 02:32, 29 November 2024
seeking to regularize both grammatical and lexical gender. In the text below, when a proposed word or usage is not grammatically correct according to the...
25 KB (2,773 words) - 04:18, 30 December 2024
Proto-Afroasiatic language (section Grammatical gender)
scholars agree that Proto-Afroasiatic nouns had grammatical gender, at least two and possibly three grammatical numbers (singular, plural, and possibly dual)...
82 KB (9,904 words) - 22:54, 1 January 2025
Zaza language (section Grammatical gender)
distinguish between masculine and feminine grammatical gender. Each noun belongs to one of those two genders. In order to correctly decline any noun and...
51 KB (4,800 words) - 18:46, 8 January 2025