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Spanish nouns belong to either the masculine or the feminine grammatical gender. [1] [2] [3] Gender, in this case, refers to a grammatical system and is not necessarily connected with biological sex or gender. [2]
The feminine (femenino): As a general rule, nouns ending in -a (casa 'house', boca 'mouth') and nouns which refer to females (madre 'mother', mujer 'woman, wife') are feminine. Similarly, the endings -ción, -sión, -dad, -tad, -tud, -sis, -tis, and -umbre indicate feminine gender.
Ganda: 10 classes called simply Class I to Class X and containing all sorts of arbitrary groupings but often characterised as people, long objects, animals, miscellaneous objects, large objects and liquids, small objects, languages, pejoratives, infinitives, mass nouns; Shona: 20 noun classes (singular and plural are considered separate classes)
Exceptions to this generality are few and debatable, for example anaphoric she referring to ships, machines, and countries [10] (see below). Another manifestation of natural gender that continues to function in English is the use of certain nouns to refer specifically to persons or animals of a particular sex: widow/widower , postman/postwoman etc.
While no single language is known to express all of them, most of them have at least 10 noun classes. For example, by Meinhof's numbering, Shona has 20 classes, Swahili has 15, Sotho has 18 and Ganda has 17. Additionally, there are polyplural noun classes. A polyplural noun class is a plural class for more than one singular class. [4]
Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) by Titian, showing the goddess Venus as the personification of femininity. Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls.
[10] Historically, "he" referred to a generic person whose gender is unspecified in formal language, but the gender-neutral singular they has long [11] [12] [13] been common in informal language, and is becoming increasingly so in formal language. [14]
Manon Bannerman (born 2002), Swiss singer and member of global girl group Katseye; Manon Bresch (born 1998), French-Cameroonian actress; Manon Capelle, Belgian actress; Manon Kahle (born 1980), American actress