单词 | grammatical gender |
释义 | grammatical gender (once / 513884 pages) n WORD FAMILY grammatical gender USAGE EXAMPLESBut because each word has a grammatical gender that we purposely mismatched with the sex of the person who said it. Scientific American(Dec 24, 2013) While the sea may have changed, it has retained its grammatical gender in Latin. Washington Post(Jun 17, 2013) We talk also about what may have happened to grammatical gender in English. Slate(May 07, 2012) n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper gender feminine a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female masculinea gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male neutera gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) grammatical category, syntactic category (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties |
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