
Meaning of GRAMMATICAL GENDER
| Pronunciation: | | gru'matikul 'jendur
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[n] 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 |
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| | Synonyms: | | gender |
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| | See Also: | | feminine, grammatical category, masculine, neuter, syntactic category | |
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