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Which of the following languages does NOT use gender as a part of its grammar?

Answer

Turkish

The story behind the answer

Turkish is correct because it has no grammatical gender: the same pronoun “o” means he/she/it, and nouns and adjectives don’t change for gender. In contrast, German marks masculine/feminine/neuter (der/die/das) and requires agreement, Polish has masculine/feminine/neuter with additional masculine subtypes that affect verbs and adjectives, and Danish distinguishes common vs. neuter gender (en/et) with adjective agreement.

Remember this by linking “Turkish” to “Turkic and agglutinative”: meaning is built with suffixes, not gender. If you need to specify biological sex, Turkish uses separate words (erkek for male, kadın for female) rather than grammar. Many learners find Turkish refreshingly gender-neutral compared to Indo-European languages like German and Polish, and even Scandinavian Danish.

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