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Grammatically, what's the point of gendered nouns?

Asked by fundevogel (15506points) July 11th, 2012

The other bits of grammar tell what role words play in a sentence relative to each other. But the only thing I get from gender is declensions that only serve to echo the gender of the noun. Is gendering nouns actually pointless? The vestigial tail of grammar if you will? Or is there functionality here I’m missing?

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