A lot of languages including Germanic and Romance languages have “gendered” nouns, which is a weird term for “these are some arbitrary categories we put nouns into”. While that idea of noun classes is often called “gender” and they are also named “gender-y” things like masculine and feminine, the idea doesn’t have a lot to do with gender as in identity.
Compare English irregular verbs - how come you don’t say “swimmed”? You “just don’t”, that particular verb is in a different class. Same thing applies to nouns in certain languages, and affects (among other things) how they’re conjugated.
A lot of languages including Germanic and Romance languages have “gendered” nouns, which is a weird term for “these are some arbitrary categories we put nouns into”. While that idea of noun classes is often called “gender” and they are also named “gender-y” things like masculine and feminine, the idea doesn’t have a lot to do with gender as in identity.
Compare English irregular verbs - how come you don’t say “swimmed”? You “just don’t”, that particular verb is in a different class. Same thing applies to nouns in certain languages, and affects (among other things) how they’re conjugated.
Gender in the grammatical sense just means category, from French genre, Latin genus.