>>>Are nouns gendered in Serbian and related languages?
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>>All of them. And adjectives (including their comparative and superlative forms, in both singular and plural), and numbers. And verbs, in about half of the tenses.
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>Geez, I thought the French were sex-crazed ;)
We have three genders, actually - male, female and email. Oooops, make the third one middle gender (called neutral in English). We even have different forms of basic numbers to denote three males (trojica), three females (tri) and a mix (troje). So this is about gender, not sex.
However, there is sex in the language. You see, in English, most of the common words have several meanings. I've recently found that the basic 500 English words have an average of 23 meanings.
In Serbian, it's much simpler. About 99% of the words have only two meanings: the regular one, and the innuendo. I've heard it said that if they took out of the dictionary all the words which could have such connotations, there wouldn't be any dictionary - not even the covers, because the covers can also mean...