I usually think grammatical gender is pretty useless in Indo European languages, with most of them having to gender a washing machine, but afro Asiatic ones have a fun additional quirk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_of_gender
Essentially the numbers have to be the opposite gender of whatever it’s married to.
Armenian and Persian are the main Indo European languages that don’t. The original Indo European language gender was based on if something had a spirit or not, not male or female.
I usually think grammatical gender is pretty useless in Indo European languages, with most of them having to gender a washing machine, but afro Asiatic ones have a fun additional quirk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_of_gender
Essentially the numbers have to be the opposite gender of whatever it’s married to.
Some languages just don’t have any genders which is better
Armenian and Persian are the main Indo European languages that don’t. The original Indo European language gender was based on if something had a spirit or not, not male or female.
This is wild! I have heard many crazy shit but this is new to me
You’re just jealous because english does not have grammatical gender.