Engelsk navneord: gender |
1. | gender (om kommunikation) 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 |
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| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | grammatical gender |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | grammatical category, syntactic category |
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| Mere specifikke termer | feminine, masculine, neuter |
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2. | gender (om egenskab) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus.
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| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | sex, sexuality |
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| Mindre specifikke termer | physiological property |
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| Mere specifikke termer | androgyny, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity |
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| Kendetegner | androgynous, asexual, female, male, nonsexual, sexual |
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