masculine gender

In grammar, masculine gender refers to a classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, or inflections that mark masculine forms. This is part of a broader system called grammatical gender, where nouns are categorized into classes that influence other words in a sentence, such as pronouns and adjectives.123

While some languages, like French, Spanish, and Italian, classify nouns into masculine and feminine genders, others, such as Russian and German, include a third, neuter gender. In many cases, the gender assigned to nouns is arbitrary, though nouns referring to male or female beings typically align with their logical gender. English, however, does not use grammatical gender; instead, it relies on "natural gender" based on the actual sex of the entity being referred to (he, she, it).34