gender vs grammatical category
grammatical category vs gendergender and grammatical category both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gender | Yes | No | No | No |
| grammatical category | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
grammatical category is a hypernym of
gender; that is, grammatical category is a
word with a broader meaning than gender:
- gender: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
- grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of gender include
syntactic category.
| gender (noun) | grammatical category (noun) |
|---|---|
| the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties |
| a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness |
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