natural gender

Noun

Meaning

natural gender (countable and uncountable, plural natural genders)

(grammar) The gender that a noun, etc. would be expected to have, based on attributes of the referent, such as physical sex.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

As regards the pronouns used to refer to animals, these generally agree in gender with the nouns denoting those animals, rather than the animals' sex (natural gender). Source: Internet

Grammatical vs. natural gender The natural gender of a noun, pronoun or noun phrase is a gender to which it would be expected to belong based on relevant attributes of its referent. Source: Internet

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

However, a switch to the natural gender is never possible with articles and attributive pronouns or adjectives. Source: Internet

Constructed languages Many constructed languages have natural gender systems similar to that of English. Source: Internet

It indicates only the natural gender, as in matre "mother" and patre "father". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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