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Groups of nouns that a particular language treats similarly, categorized either by gender ("masculine"/"feminine"/"neuter"), animacy, or some other attribute of the thing signified by the noun; or by the noun's morphology; or by other rules, different from language to language.
System which categorises and marks the nouns of a language according to their meaning, form or pronunciation; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes.

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A definition or brief description of Noun class.

System which categorises and marks the nouns of a language according to their meaning, form or pronunciation; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes.

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