Talk:Grammatical gender

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"Humanness"
Especially in the context of animacy, it is misleading to limit this description to one species. As noted in the page for animacy, this describes the extent to which something is alive or the "aliveness". 2600:1700:FC80:5020:D85E:9C59:B5AB:E986 (talk) 04:27, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

The current article text contains, as examples of categories of words that carry signs of gender:

”past and passive participles”

I think the “past and passive” may be left out here, for we have for present and active participles in at least several languages:


 * 1) NL [m] een schitterende man, [f] een schitterende vrouw, [n] een schitterend kind {a wonderful (literally: shining, glittering) man / woman / child}, where the m and f present participles carry the suffix -e and the n one does not;


 * 1) DE [m] ein gehender Mann, [f] eine gehende Frau, [n] ein gehendes Kind {a walking man / woman / child} with distinct -er, -e and -es;


 * 1) LA [m] homo ludentem, [f] femina ludentem, [n] animal ludens {playing man / woman / animal, all singular accusative}, as well as: [m] homines ludentes, [f] feminae ludentes, [n] animalia ludentia {same meanings, except now in plural nominative}

Any motivated objections?Redav (talk) 05:43, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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