common gender - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- enPR: kŏm′ən jĕn′dər
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒm.ən ˈd͡ʒɛn.də/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑm.ən ˈd͡ʒɛn.dəɹ/
common gender (countable and uncountable, plural common genders)
- (linguistics) A grammatical gender in some languages, formed by the historical merging of masculine and feminine genders.
2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, page 16:
There are two genders: common gender (genus commune, abbreviated: com.) and neuter (genus neutrum, abbreviated: neut.). The common gender combines the masculine and feminine of other Indo-European languages into one.
- (grammar) In some languages (e.g. Latin, Lithuanian), a gender applied to a noun that can be either masculine or feminine.
linguistics: a grammatical gender
- Belarusian: агу́льны род m (ahúlʹny rod)
- Burmese: အနပုလ္လိင် (my) (a.na.pulling), ဒွိလိင် (my) (dwi.ling)
- Chinese:
- Danish: fælleskøn (da) n
- Dutch: zijdig n, de-geslacht n
- Faroese: samkyn n
- Finnish: yhteinen suku, yleinen suku; en-suku (Scandinavian languages)
- French: genre commun m
- German: Genus commune n, Utrum (de) n
- Greek: κοινό γένος n (koinó génos)
- Greenlandic: fælleskønni
- Hungarian: közös nem (hu)
- Icelandic: samkyn (is) n
- Latin: genus commūne n
- Lithuanian: bendroji giminė f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: felleskjønn (no) n
- Nynorsk: felleskjønn n
- Polish: rodzaj wspólny m
- Russian: о́бщий род (ru) m (óbščij rod)
- Spanish: género común m
- Swedish: utrum (sv) n, n-genus (sv) n
- Ukrainian: спі́льний рід m (spílʹnyj rid)
- Zazaki: nerimaki
grammar: a gender applied to a noun that can be either masculine or feminine