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There are other languages have more feminine nouns? Give examples.

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Answered by Anonymous
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Answer:

No. First, there are some complications which make it difficult to even decide how to interpret the question:

1. Not all languages even have the same nouns. Exact translation equivalents are rare, and normally only exist for very simple, basic vocabulary for concrete objects or formally defined technical vocabulary.

2. Languages that have genders do not all have the same genders. Bantu languages can have up to 22 different genders, but even languages that only have two or three could have masculine/feminine, animate/inanimate, human/non-human, or any of several other semantic distinctions.

But even considering only the subset of simple concrete nouns for which most languages have exact translational equivalents, and comparing languages that have the same number of genders with the same semantic bases, there is no reason why the gender of a noun in one language should have any relation to the gender of the translation equivalent in another language. Closely related languages (like Russian & Ukrainian, or Spanish & Italian) may have a high degree of correspondence in noun genders simply because they retain whatever gender the words had in their parent language, but there are several evolutionary processes which can cause nouns to change class over time (not to mention that each language may gain new vocabulary not present in the parent language which get assigned to different genders independently) which mean that even in those cases, the correspondence is not 100%.

Answered by aum1052
1

Answer:

man, women

Explanation:

Feminine nouns are words for women and girls and female animals. Masculine nouns belong to the masculine gender. Feminine nouns belong to the feminine gender.

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