neuter

Examples

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• Look at English literature more than about 50 years old, and you'll see the neuter pronoun commonly used for a child.

  Blog text (15)

• We might have called this creature of neuter gender simply a human being, as we might call a woman a human being.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Its is the neuter version of his and her.

  Blog text (1)

• Vice is a common substantive of the neuter gender, the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case.

  Academic text (1998)

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

• As his series of ten or so articles proves, the masculine and neuter arose before the feminine; the latter is a third gender, a historical afterthought.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Its Zambinellian descendence means that the Barthesian neuter can never exactly be ungendered or unsexed.

  Academic text (1992)

• Such statements betray an implicit and untenable body-self dualism, as if the human person were a neuter self inhabiting a body that happens to be male or female.

  Academic text (2008)

• In English grammar, words like 'book' or 'water' are categorized as neuter nouns, as they are not associated with a specific gender.

• The neuter form of the pronoun is commonly used to refer to inanimate objects, such as 'it' for 'the table'.

Synonyms

N

neut

vsneuter

• Jargon

9.9

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

is the full word rather than its shortened written form

Surface Forms

Etymology