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One important thing not mentioned. English has no genders except in extremely rare cases. Other Indo-European languages are full of genders, like female tables, male autos, etc.

Trying to learn Spanish in high school, it was genders that confused me the most. Safe to say I just remember some words at this point.



English only has sex, not gender. He, She, It.

The commonly cited example of referring to ships as 'she' is simply an affectation, grammatically a ship is an it.

Or can you provide another example I may have overlooked?


I was thinking of ship, I am far from a language scholar.




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