feminine

Grammatical gender

Also known as feminine gender · fem · f

Instance of: grammatical gender
Subclass of: inflected form

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In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. English does not have this system, though most other Indo-European languages have it. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical category called gender. The values present in a given language, of which there are usually two or three, are called the genders of that language. Determiners, adjectives, and pronouns also change their form depending on the noun to which they refer.

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Opposite of: masculine criterion used: gender binary
non-feminine criterion used: logical negation
Main Wikidata property: female form of label
Different from: F applies to name of subject: F · criterion used: short name, acronym, initialism, or abbreviation not unique
female
femininity
femme
hyperfemininity
girl
Short name: F used by: interlinear gloss
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1.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.phpRetrieved 2023-11-11
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m applies to name of subject: mê
жін.
Entry in abbreviations table: امث used by: Urdu Lughat
स्त्री॰ used by: Hindi Shabdsagar, Bhagavadgomandal
m used by: Ferhenga Mezin ya Kurdî Tirkî
م۔ used by: باياسايتساساياسايسياساياسايسربريتيتييتساياستيتستيتستيتساياستتيتستيتستسا
dh used by: Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga
f used by: A Hausa-English Dictionary
ښځ used by: Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary
м. used by: 18th Century Russian Dictionary
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ž used by: Slovenian Etymological Dictionary
bain used by: The National Terminology Database for Irish
F. used by: dexonline
kvk used by: A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic
fem. used by: dizionari.lombard
ἡ used by: A Greek–English Lexicon
Partially coincident with: common criterion used: male

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9 identifiers linking feminine across the web's reference databases

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