Neuter Gender
Definition:
Neuter gender is a grammatical gender that
- includes those nouns having referents which do not have distinctions of sex, and
- often includes some which do have a natural sex distinction.
Examples:
(German)
Here are some examples of words that have neuter gender [diacritical markings are not reproduced here]:
- das Festmahl ‘the banquet’
- das Madchen ‘the girl’
Source:
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.