JarekSteliga
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- Nov 30, 2011
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- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Polish
- Home Country
- Poland
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- Poland
I have learnt that English nouns are basicly genderless. However I often encounter some objects reffered to as 'he' or 'she'. I could not find a list of objects commonly endowed with a gender. I know just a few items of any such list: the Moon (she), the Sun (she), a ship/boat (she). Would anyone care to draw up a list of inanimate nouns commonly referred to as 'he' or 'she'?
The intriguing thing here is that two nouns out of the three I mentioned above have the opposite gender in my language (the Sun being referred to as 'it')
The intriguing thing here is that two nouns out of the three I mentioned above have the opposite gender in my language (the Sun being referred to as 'it')