Grammatical gender, however, may serve to distinguish some of these.
Both grammatical and natural gender can have linguistic effects in a given language.
Grammatical gender is quite common phenomenon in the world's languages.
The language is best known for its system of grammatical gender, numbering four in total.
Certain words are understood to refer to either men or women regardless of their grammatical gender.
Grammatical gender was not recognized and no Uralic language does so even today.
Alternative traditions consider the grammatical genders of the words involved.
Latin poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the word.
Nouns are not usually marked for grammatical gender or number.