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===Gender===

===Gender===

'''Gender''' is an attribute of [[noun]]s, [[pronoun]]s, and [[adjective]]s in some [[language]]s.  Languages like French and Spanish use different articles (e.g., ''le'' and ''la'' in French, ''el'' and ''la'' in Spanish) to indicate that certain nouns are masculine or feminine. Remembering which words are masculine or feminine is a substantial feat for foreign learners. While words specific to male and female people are easy (''El Señor'' vs. ''La Señorita''), a word's grammatical gender may or may not indicate the sex of what the word describes. For example, ''le chateau'' or ''la maison''.  

'''Gender''' is an attribute of [[noun]]s, [[pronoun]]s, and [[adjective]]s in some [[language]]s.  Languages like French and Spanish use different articles (e.g., ''le'' and ''la'' in French, ''el'' and ''la'' in Spanish) to indicate that certain nouns are masculine or feminine. Remembering which words are masculine or feminine is a substantial feat for foreign learners. While words specific to male and female people are easy (''El Señor'' vs. ''La Señorita''), a word's grammatical gender may or may not indicate the sex of what the word describes. For example, ''le chateau'' or ''la maison''. In Spanish and some other languages, the ending of the noun often, but not invariably, corresponds to the gender.

Depending on the language, typical gender distinctions include masculine/feminine, masculine/feminine/neuter, and animate/inanimate.  Not all languages have grammatical gender; for example, some languages have a single pronoun corresponding to the English "he," "she," and "it." In [[Hebrew]], the word for "it" is the same as the word for "this", so "I like it" would literally translate as "I like this".

Depending on the language, typical gender distinctions include masculine/feminine, masculine/feminine/neuter, masculine singular/feminine singular/neuter singular/genderless plural, and animate/inanimate.  Not all languages have grammatical gender; for example, some languages have a single pronoun corresponding to the English "he," "she," and "it." In [[Hebrew]], the word for "it" is the same as the word for "this", so "I like it" would literally translate as "I like this”. Depending on the language, gender and [[number (grammar)|number]] may or may not be encoded separately, i.e., represented by separate [[morpheme]]s.

==See also==

==See also==