what does grammatical gender mean?
GRAMMATICAL GENDER as NOUN
- Meaning
- 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
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) grammatical gender is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
Hyponym(s)
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