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neuter

neuter

7.3
Belonging to a grammatical gender that is neither masculine nor feminine
  • adjective
  • /ˈnjuːtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : neutro
  • In Latin, the word for 'table' is neuter, as it does not have a masculine or feminine form.

So in other words, it's toya or tueira in the genitive of two, whether it's masculine, neuter or feminine.

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Examples

  • Now, one thing to note is that neuter plural nouns very often look the same as neuter singular nouns.

  • Here it's hit Neuter, masculine and genitive singular forms are the same.

  • Now if we said neuter, oh God yeah.

  • Well, what is the neuter of organ and action in this case?

  • What we're talking about Why are why do people send neuter and people are meeting less right it's your fault in you're less in person.

  • The questions to, to sort of track, sort of neuter my, my tendency to ask long winded questions are pretty short.

  • The Greek term is calon or actually calos for masculine, Calais for feminine and calon for neuter or, or in general.

  • The neuter gender is essential in understanding many languages, including German and Swedish.

  • When discussing verbs, the term neuter refers to forms that express no specific gender.

Synonyms

neut
vsneuter
  • Jargon
9.9

A gender in grammar for words that are neither masculine nor feminine

is the full word form rather than an abbreviated label

Antonyms

feminine
  • Specialized
8 4.4

Having the grammatical gender used to mark words as female

masculine
  • Specialized
3 4.9

Belonging to the male grammatical gender in a language

Surface Forms

neuter positive

Etymology

Neuter comes from Latin parts ne- 'not' and uter 'which of two', so it means 'neither of the two'; that's why a neuter grammatical gender labels words that are not masculine or feminine, like the pronoun 'it'.