Grammar devices
Grammatical gender and noun classes
Grammatical gender and noun classes
Does a noun belong to a group that changes other words?
grammatical gender
Maksud
Some languages put nouns into groups that make other words take matching forms. These groups may reflect people, animals or shapes, but a noun's group does not always follow its meaning. Some languages have several groups, while others have none or use different pronouns for male and female people without grouping ordinary nouns. Agreement is the matching of forms; Grammatical gender and noun classes is the grouping that can make that matching necessary.
Cara mengenalinya
Compare nouns used with the same article, adjective or pronoun, and check whether those words change because the nouns belong to different groups.