woordgeslacht

Definitions of woordgeslacht
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: genus, geslacht
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    types:
    f., femininum
    a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
    masculinum
    a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
    het-woord, n., neutrum
    a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
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