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  2. List of languages by type of grammatical genders - Wikipedia

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    Polish: Masculine personal, Masculine animate, Masculine inanimate, Feminine, Neuter (traditionally, only masculine, feminine and neuter genders are recognized). Pama–Nyungan languages including Dyirbal and other Australian languages have gender systems such as: Masculine, feminine (see Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things), vegetable and neuter ...

  3. Gender in English - Wikipedia

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    Examples of "masculine" nouns in Newfoundland English are hat, shovel, book, and pencil; "feminine" are boat, aeroplane; "neuter" nouns include water, fog, weather, and snow. [30] Inanimate count nouns in Newfoundland Vernacular English differ from those in Standard English in that they are either masculine or feminine. Specifically, if an ...

  4. Grammatical gender - Wikipedia

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    Here a masculinefeminine–neuter system previously existed, but the distinction between masculine and feminine genders has been lost in nouns (they have merged into what is called common gender), though not in pronouns that can operate under natural gender. Thus nouns denoting people are usually of common gender, whereas other nouns may be ...

  5. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The masculine pronouns, he, him, and his are used to refer to male persons. The feminine pronouns she, her, and hers are used to refer to female persons. It and its are normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract concept; however, babies and young children may sometimes be referred to as it (e.g. a child needs its mother).

  6. Gender - Wikipedia

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    In the 1974 edition of Masculine/Feminine or Human, the author uses "innate gender" and "learned sex roles", [114] but in the 1978 edition, the use of sex and gender is reversed. [115] By 1980, most feminist writings had agreed on using gender only for socioculturally adapted traits.

  7. List of gender identities - Wikipedia

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    Genderfluid [4] [8] [3] [5] can be defined as a gender identity that is "at times more masculine or feminine, and at times feeling more like a man or woman."

  8. Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person ...

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    For people and animals with specified gender, the masculine or feminine pronouns are used, but the nouns still take either neutral or common articles. There is no gender distinction in the plural. In Swedish, the word hen was introduced generally in the 2000s as a complement to the gender-specific hon ("she") and han ("he").

  9. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    In his 1998 book Masculinity and Femininity: the Taboo Dimension of National Cultures, Dutch psychologist and researcher Geert Hofstede wrote that only behaviors directly connected with procreation can, strictly speaking, be described as feminine or masculine, and yet every society worldwide recognizes many additional behaviors as more suitable ...