Wouldn't it be great if a gender-neutral pronoun for "he" or "she" existed in English?
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Gender-neutral
Synonyms for "gender-neutral" (8 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (2)
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (4)
Adjective(4 words)
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1 entriesderived
4 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 13 languages.
Danish
1 entries- kønsneutral adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
Dutch
2 entries- genderneutraal adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
- geslachtsloos adj (grammar: lacking gender assignment)
Esperanto
1 entries- genroneŭtrala adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
Finnish
2 entries- sukupuolineutraali adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
- suvuton adj (grammar: lacking gender assignment)
French
2 entries- unigenre adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
- épicène adj (grammar: lacking gender assignment)
Georgian
2 entries- გენდერ-ნეიტრალური adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
- გენდერულად ნეიტრალური adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
German
3 entries- geschlechtslos adj (grammar: lacking gender assignment)
- geschlechtsneutral adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
- unisex adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
Korean
1 entries- 성중립적 adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
Latin
2 entries- agenus adj (grammar: lacking gender assignment)
- insexus adj (grammar: lacking gender assignment)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kjønnsnøytral adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kjønnsnøytral adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
Russian
2 entries- ге́ндерно-нейтра́льный adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
- неродово́й adj (grammar: lacking gender assignment)
Swedish
1 entries- könsneutral adj (not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
If one were to use the pronoun "one" it would go a long way towards relieving the inconvenience of not having a gender-neutral pronoun in English.
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In Sweden a gender-neutral pronoun was introduced to make the distinction between male and female grammatically unnecessary.
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In August 2014 the Swedish Building Workers' Union decided that the gender-neutral pronoun "hen" ("he or she, or neither he nor she") should be used instead of "han" ("he") in forthcoming versions of its by-laws.
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