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grammatical gender

gram·ma·ti·calgender

uncommon

noun

1.

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

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