Gender: gender
Ancient Greek distinguishes three values for the feature Gender: masculine, feminine, and neuter. This feature applies to the following PoS: ADJ, DET, NOUN, NUM, PRON, PROPN, VERB (only with participles).
The value for common gender is not used. Note that if a noun can be both masculine or feminine, the gender annotated is the one the noun bears in a given occurrence.
Masc: masculine gender
Nouns denoting male persons are masculine. Other nouns may be also grammatically masculine, without any relation to sex.
Examples
- ναύτης “seaman”
Fem: feminine gender
Nouns denoting female persons are feminine. Other nouns may be also grammatically feminine, without any relation to sex.
Examples
- γυνή “woman”
Neut: neuter gender
nouns that are neither masculine nor feminine (grammatically).
Examples
- παιδίον “little child”
Gender in other languages: [bej] [bg] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hbo] [it] [myv] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [u] [uk]