grammatical gender
The grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond…The grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.
» Grammatical gender is not universal.
Граматичний рід — не універсальне поняття.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.
Genus, grammatisches Geschlecht
- 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
Examples
12 sentencesGrammatical gender is not universal.
Граматичний рід — не універсальне поняття. — deniko
Esperanto has no true grammatical gender.
Finnish has no articles and no grammatical gender.
deDas Finnische kennt keinen Artikel und kein grammatisches Geschlecht. — mraz
Hungarian lacks grammatical gender.
Hungarian has no grammatical gender.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Forms
plural: grammatical genders| Singular | grammatical gender |
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regular
Synonyms
2 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable