In linguistics, grammatical gender refers to the practice of grouping nouns into the gendered classes of masculine and feminine. Some languages also use a third class known as the neuter gender and a fourth class known as the common gender, while others have no gender system at all. Although gendered nouns are found in many languages, the system has very limited applications in modern English. Old English, which dates from about 500 C.E. to 1150 C.E., featured masculine, feminine, and neuter... więcej

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