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Important: Please use standard style

• Use wikitables.
• Write foreign words in italics. and write the English translation in quotes. If gender is necessary, put it in brackets next to the word. Abbreviate.

e.g. (Spanish) perro (m.) "dog"

• Use bold letters to highlight suffixes

e.g. (French) Une femme blonde "A blonde woman"

• Avoid redundant examples: if a given section already has a good example in one language, don't add another for the sake of putting something in your language.

Nobody has ever "gendered" a language. They named things and ascribed qualities to them. You can't just add -ed to render "gender" an attributive verb. I suggest replacing all instances of "gendered" with phrases that express the same meaning, e. g., "a language with grammatical gender" instead of "gendered language". 185.205.225.132 (talk) 12:39, 1 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It is a word in the dictionary and this usage is explicitly supported.[1] We can use it. --DanielRigal (talk) 14:54, 3 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Especially in the context of animacy, it is misleading to limit this description to one species. As noted in the page for animacy, this describes the extent to which something is alive or the "aliveness". 2600:1700:FC80:5020:D85E:9C59:B5AB:E986 (talk) 04:27, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The current article text contains, as examples of categories of words that carry signs of gender:

”past and passive participles”

I think the “past and passive” may be left out here, for we have for present and active participles in at least several languages:

1. NL [m] een schitterende man, [f] een schitterende vrouw, [n] een schitterend kind {a wonderful (literally: shining, glittering) man / woman / child}, where the m and f present participles carry the suffix -e and the n one does not;

1. DE [m] ein gehender Mann, [f] eine gehende Frau, [n] ein gehendes Kind {a walking man / woman / child} with distinct -er, -e and -es;

1. LA [m] homo ludentem, [f] femina ludentem, [n] animal ludens {playing man / woman / animal, all singular accusative}, as well as: [m] homines ludentes, [f] feminae ludentes, [n] animalia ludentia {same meanings, except now in plural nominative}

Any motivated objections?Redav (talk) 05:43, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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