neuter

Grammatical gender that's neither masculine nor feminine

Also known as neuter gender · nt · n · neut · neu

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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Partially coincident with: epicene
inanimate
Different from: common of two genders
ambiguous gender
neutrois
gender neutrality
gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender
neutral country
Unicode character: ⚲
Short name: N
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1.“Dept. of Linguistics | Resources | Glossing Rules”eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.phpRetrieved 2023-01-06
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ср.р
Entry in abbreviations table: न used by: Paia-sadda-mahannavo, Bhagavadgomandal
s used by: Slovenian Etymological Dictionary
o. used by: Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal
n. used by: Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
N. used by: dexonline
hk used by: A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic
ni used by: Lenape Talking Dictionary
Opposite of: common
Main Wikidata property: ‎gender-neutral form of label

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