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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性 (zh) (xìng)

• French: genre grammatical m
• Georgian: გრამატიკული სქესი (gramaṭiḳuli skesi)
• German: Genus (de) n, grammatisches Geschlecht (de) n
• Romanian: gen (ro) n, gen gramatical n

See also

• natural gender