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
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;
"she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
例句
用作名词 (n.)
German has three genders. 德语中有三性。
The male and female genders are equal. 男性和女性是平等的。
Was it gender discrimination or were the female students simply superior writers? 是性别歧视还是女生天生就是擅长于写作呢?
Native English speakers are more gender blind when they mention their cousins. 在涉及表亲的时候,英语母语的人更容易混淆性别。
经典引文
Das Glueck, le bonheur, la felicidadsthey have given it all three genders.