Three grammatical genders:
- Animate
- Animals
- Certain body parts
- Inanimate objects or ideas often personified as having the qualities of a living thing
- Inanimate
- Inanimate objects that can be physically touched and picked up/held (either literally or hypothetically)
- Plants
- Dead animals, corpses
- Abstract/Intangible
- Inanimate objects that have no tangible form or that one cannot be pick up/hold
- Abstract ideas or concepts
- Adjectives or verbs functioning as nouns
The gender of a noun is not evident from the noun's spelling; however, gender can generally be determined from the physical attributes of the noun, as listed above.