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masculine, feminine, and neuter; or animate and inanimate.

Depending on the language and the specific word, the assignment of grammatical gender may correlate with the noun's meaning (e.g., "woman" is typically feminine) or may be entirely arbitrary.

In a few languages, the assignment of any particular noun (i.e., nominal lexeme, that set of noun forms inflectable from a common lemma) to one grammatical gender is solely

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