Various languages apply grammatical gender to all nouns (German among them, Dutch has two grammatical genders for nouns, certainly a number of other languages). in some languages you can also change the grammatical gender ofa noun with a prefix or suffix, and that is when things become interesting. ^^
(For example: "der Autor/die Autorin" = the (male/female) writer.)
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Various languages apply grammatical gender to all nouns (German among them, Dutch has two grammatical genders for nouns, certainly a number of other languages). in some languages you can also change the grammatical gender ofa noun with a prefix or suffix, and that is when things become interesting. ^^
(For example: "der Autor/die Autorin" = the (male/female) writer.)