Thread:User talk:Mikalos209/Hebrew Gendering/reply (58)

I don't know german, but in russian it is always based on the sound of the word. In french it is often a case of euphony.

But ask yourself this, do you say "she" to cars, boats, generic gods, etc?

There is a fun linguistic study that shows that in russian, where the gender is defined by the spelling of the word, people will use more feminine sounding adjectives for "female" gendered words, than male, even if describing the same thing. for example "auto" "automobile" "car" "vehicle" are all in some ways the same thing, but are gendered differently in russian. when describing one that has female gender, girly descriptions are more common. not sure what that means... i'm just saying.