Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
---|---|---|---|---|
gender | Yes | No | No | No |
syntactic category | Yes | No | No | No |
gender (noun) | syntactic 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 |