grammatical gender
Also known as Genus, gender
grammatical system of noun classification
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Grammatical gender is a system that divides nouns in a language into categories (like masculine, feminine, or neuter), which affects how other words in a sentence are spelled or pronounced to match them. This classification matters because it shapes how speakers form grammatically correct sentences in their language, even though the grammatical categories often don't correspond to biological sex.
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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 related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. English does not have this system. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical category called gender. The values present in a given language, of which there are usually two or three, are called the genders of that language. Determiners, adjectives, and pronouns also change their form depending on the noun to which they refer.
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