Nouns can be male, female, or neutral {gender}|. Russian, Greek, Latin, and German use three genders. Languages can use two genders, male and female. Swahili uses six genders. Gender refers to social roles and other meanings besides biology. Some languages do not use gender.
In gender systems {natural gender system}, animate objects can be actual gender, and inanimate objects can be neuter.
Nouns {epicene} can be for male or female gender.
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