Grammatical gender
![The grammatical gender of a noun affects the form of other words related to it. For example, in Spanish, determiners, adjectives, and pronouns change their form depending on the noun to which they refer.[10] Spanish nouns have two genders: masculine and feminine, represented here by the nouns gato and gata respectively.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Gatos2948.png")
![In the French language, countries can have masculine (green) or feminine (purple) names. Except for certain islands and Mexique, Mozambique, Cambodge and Zimbabwe, the gender depends on whether the country name ends in -e.](/Images/godic/202502/19/French_country_name_genders.svg2948.png")
![In the Polish language, countries can have masculine (blue), feminine (red) or neuter (yellow) names. Countries with plural names are green.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Polish_country_name_genders.svg2948.png")
![Gender in European languages.
Light blue: no gender system
Yellow: common/neuter
Green: animate/inanimate (Basque)
Red: masculine/feminine
Dark blue: masculine/feminine/neuter](/Images/godic/202502/19/Gender_in_European_languages2948.png")
In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun-class system in which the division of noun classes forms an agreement system with another aspect of the language, such as adjectives, articles, pronouns, or verbs. This system is used in approximately one quarter of the world's languages. In these languages, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical category called gender; the values present in a given language (of which there are usually two or three) are called the genders of that language. According to one definition: "Genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behaviour of associated words."