Gender: gender
Gender is a lexical feature of nouns and an inflectional feature of other parts of speech (adjectives, determiners) that mark agreement with nouns.
Com: common gender
Swedish does not distinguish masculine/feminine most of the time but does distinguish neuter vs. non-neuter (neutrum/utrum). The non-neuter is called common gender.
Examples
- [sv] en ogift mor “an unmarried mother”
- [sv] anmälan blir ifylld “the report is filled in”
Neut: neuter gender
Nouns and other parts of speech that are neither masculine nor feminine (grammatically).
Examples
- [sv] fullt bostadstillägg “full housing supplement”
- [sv] det första kravet “the first requirement”
Masc: masculine gender
Some adjectives, when referring specifically to a male person, take a masculine form in Swedish.
Examples
- [sv] den arbetslöse “the unemployed (man)”
- [sv] den brittiske författaren “the British author”
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