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grammatical gender vs feminine

feminine vs grammatical gender

grammatical gender and feminine both are nouns.

grammatical gender is not an adjective while feminine is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grammatical gender Yes No No No
feminine Yes Yes No No
As nouns, feminine is a hyponym of grammatical gender; that is, feminine is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than grammatical gender:
  • grammatical 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
  • feminine: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
Other hyponyms of grammatical gender include masculine, neuter.
grammatical gender (noun) feminine (noun)
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 a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
grammatical gender (adjective) feminine (adjective)
associated with women and not with men
female (of grammatical gender)
befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
Difference between grammatical gender and feminine

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