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grammatical gender vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs grammatical gender

grammatical gender and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grammatical gender Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of grammatical gender; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader 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
  • grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of grammatical gender include syntactic category.
grammatical gender (noun) grammatical category (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 (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between grammatical gender and grammatical category

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