gender agreement
Noun: - Grammatical concord based on gender: The grammatical rule requiring that related words within a phrase or clause correspond in their grammatical gender. This is a specific type of agreement found in languages with grammatical gender systems.
"Gender agreement" is a technical term used in linguistics and grammar. It describes a syntactic rule, not an action. It is most commonly used when analyzing, describing, or learning the grammar of languages like French, Spanish, German, or Arabic. - It is used to explain why adjective endings or article forms change. - It is discussed in contexts of language learning, translation, and grammatical analysis.
- In the Spanish phrase "" (the white house), the feminine article "" and the feminine adjective "" show gender agreement with the feminine noun "".
- A common mistake for learners of French is incorrect gender agreement between adjectives and the nouns they modify.
- The grammar exercise focused on practicing gender agreement for past participles.
- Linguistic Analysis: The concept is used to compare gender systems across different languages or to trace historical changes in a language's grammar.
- Computational Linguistics: Ensuring proper gender agreement is a challenge in natural language processing and machine translation algorithms.
- Agreement (Noun): The broader grammatical category encompassing number, person, case, and gender agreement.
- Concord (Noun): A synonym often used interchangeably with "agreement" in grammatical contexts.
- Gender concord
- Grammatical gender concord
This term has a single, specific meaning within linguistics. It does not refer to social agreements about gender identity or roles. It is purely a grammatical concept concerning word forms.
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agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction
