Natural gender

Natural gender is a linguistic category for the sex of real life beings, both the biological sex of animals or the social identity of a person. The sex, of humans and animals, is marked in many languages by a corresponding grammatical gender and specific words. The term sex (or sexus) does not apply to words that do not refer to living things.  For example: the word "table" is grammatically feminine in Spanish, but tables are not "feminine". The gender of words in those languages divides words into grammatical classes (into genders), which require a language for all nouns.
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