SYNO | gender | grammatical gender |
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Usage Examples English
- In general, Korean lacks grammatical gender. As one of the few exceptions, the third-person singular pronoun has two different forms: 그 "geu" (male) and 그녀 "geu-nyeo" (female).
- Nouns have no grammatical gender. Personal pronouns take one form for the subject and one for the direct object and reflexive.
- In linguistics, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender categories that are often not related to their real-world qualities.
- Each noun belongs to a class, and each language may have several numbered classes, somewhat like grammatical gender in European languages.
- However, other scholars hold the change to be based not on grammatical gender but on the evolution of religious beliefs; that *Nerþuz and Njörðr appear as different genders because they are to be considered separate beings.
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