natural gender

Many constructed languages have natural gender systems similar to that of English.

This is particularly so in the case of things with no natural gender, such as sexless objects.

The personal pronouns in English take various forms according to number, person, case and natural gender.

Natural gender plays only a small role in Colognian grammar.

Both grammatical and natural gender can have linguistic effects in a given language.

In such cases, the pronoun is likely to agree with the natural gender of the referent.

There is a very strong tendency toward natural gender for nouns referring to people and some animals.

The name for this meaning-oriented classification is 'natural gender'.

Surprise cried, back in her natural gender and solidity.

In order to specify the natural gender of a noun, an adjective must be added.

It has a complex grammatical gender system, but this does not include natural gender.

Fa'afafine are accepted as a natural gender, and neither looked down upon nor discriminated against.

In the case of words like "het meisje" (the girl), this is different from the natural gender.

Words referring to animate entities whose natural gender is masculine:

It indicates only natural gender, as in matre "mother" and patre "father".

I call Algernon, is a he, though in fact I have not a clue as to its natural gender.

Humans and domestic animals have their natural gender:

The grammatical gender of a noun does not always coincide with its natural gender.

There is no grammatical gender in Persian, nor are pronouns marked for natural gender.

Living things have natural gender, while plants and inanimate objects have morphological gender.

Nouns denoting a person, such as home "man" or dona "woman", generally agree with the natural gender of what is described.

However, Catalan assigns gender to nouns without natural gender in arbitrary fashion.

Natural gender in Spanish loans.

If the noun is animate, natural gender tends to dictate grammatical gender.

The third-person singular personal pronouns are chosen according to the natural gender of their antecedent or referent.