grammatical gender

grammatical gender

English

Noun

grammatical gender (countable and uncountable, plural grammatical genders)

1. (grammar) The grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.

Translations

gender as prescribed by grammar

German: Genus (de) n, grammatisches Geschlecht (de) n

Romanian: gen (ro) n, gen gramatical n

See also

• natural gender