Sentence:  The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of "nêhiyawêwin" as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are <WSD>male</WSD> or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.