gender (n)
grammatical gender (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives
def in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Outgoing links
Hypernym grammatical category, syntactic category
Hyponym feminine; masculine; neuter
Incoming links
Hyponym grammatical category, syntactic category
Hypernym feminine; masculine; neuter

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