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In English, the gender of nouns are:
- gender specific noun for a male (king, father, cowboy, etc.)
- gender specific noun for a female (queen, aunt, waitress, etc.)
- common gender noun, a word for a male or a female (teacher, parent, friend, etc.)
- neuter noun, a word for something that has no gender (fork, street, hamburger, etc.)
The gender of a noun is a formal category in which it is found. It has nothing to do with sex. Many Indo-European languages have three genders, misleadingly called masculine, feminine and neuter, but some, like Japanese have many more. Gender difference requires different treatment of the word. A "feminine' word must be modified by adjectives having "feminine" endings, and have a "feminine" article - and in Slavic languages, a "feminine" verb. Where there is no distinction in adjective, articles or verb endings, as for example in English, there is no gender in the noun.
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