Maybe this is interesting to you, although I am by no means an expert but obviously I am a native speaker. In Greek what is cool is that female nouns ending in -εια, εία, and -ειά are produced from a verb and denote the action or result of the verb.
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Replying to @o_guest @nicholaraihani
So tons of nouns with female grammatical gender are very typically "masculine" from at least an Anglo perspective. Here is a list of examples: https://www.amouliani.com.gr/istoselides/e_yliko/E/glossa_5/grammatiki/eia_ia.pdf …
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Replying to @o_guest @nicholaraihani
So personally to me the fact a noun has a specific grammatical gender dissociates completely with how otherwise male or female a noun is perceived. And I think this is also shown to be the case in research too. E.g., the role of grammatical gender is not related to other gender.
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Replying to @nicholaraihani
English treating a noun as female like a boat or something is quite exceptional — it might be covered by this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/01/ask-grown-up-boats-called-she … I'm pretty sure the arguments in that article are not true for other languages. Definitely not any I have come across. IIRC
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In other languages, as I have said grammatical gender is not about other gender really. Some ideas on the role for it are presented here:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tops.12316 …
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Not sure if relevant here but in Spanish there are nouns that are "feminine" but their pronoun is masculine such as 'agua' (water). 'El' (masculine) 'agua' clara (femenine).
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How do you know it's f then?
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You learn it
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Its use
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How do you use it as an f if the article is m?
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The adjective tells the gender of the noun, there must be gender agreement between noun and adjective. However, some nouns have both genders (not neutral) such as 'mar' (sea). In this case, the pronoun used determines the gender of the adjective: 'la mar brava', 'el mar bravo'
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