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How many grammatical genders does standard Hindi use?
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Standard Hindi uses two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine.12
While some other Indo-Aryan languages, such as Gujarati and Marathi, have retained a neuter gender, Hindi has reduced its system to these two categories. In Hindi, nouns are assigned one of these two genders, and adjectives typically agree with the noun they qualify in both number and gender.1