"gender" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Loanwords are generally assigned masculine gender by default unless they end in a schwa, in which case they are usually feminine.
- In addition, German assigns gender to nouns without natural gender, in an arbitrary fashion.
- Lakotah prayers refer to him as Grandfather; however, not all Nations assign gender, or only one gender, to the Great Mystery.
- In a language like English, which does not assign grammatical gender to nouns, the pronoun used for referring to objects (it) is normally used for animals also.
- These words are assigned grammatical gender in Romanian and handled according to Romanian rules; thus "the manager" is "managerul".
- English speakers do indeed find it natural, and complain mightily about the bizarre foreign habit of assigning gender to anything from a turnip to a sideboard.
- However, Catalan assigns gender to nouns without natural gender in arbitrary fashion.
- The French, who assign gender to words, are in lockstep with us on the masculinity issue.
- I have listened too much to Barton-and I suppose it is natural to assign gender in terms of size.
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