GRAMMATICAL GENDER
(noun)Definitions
There is 1 meaning of the phrase
Grammatical Gender.
Grammatical Gender - as a noun
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
Synonyms (Exact Relations)
genderHypernyms (Closely Related)
grammatical categorysyntactic categoryHyponyms (Broadly Related)
Example Sentences
"In the Spanish language, there are two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine."
"The concept of grammatical gender is present in many Indo-European languages."
"In French, every noun has a grammatical gender assigned to it."
"Some languages have a neutral grammatical gender in addition to masculine and feminine."
"German has three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter."
