Questions tagged [gender]
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Is "koramiko" gender neutral or always male?
amik·o, like most other nouns in Esperanto (and other than most or all Esperanto terms for specific relatives), is, as far as I know, sex- / gender-neutral.
Is that also the case for kor·amik·o? Or ...
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How common is the "-iĉ-" suffix to denote maleness?
I read a great article once about an apparent "controversy" in Esperanto - the fact that words are considered by default to be male, and the "-in-" suffix is added to make them female.
It discusses ...
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Does Esperanto have a gender-neutral pronoun that can be used for humans?
In English, if I don't know the gender of the person I'm referring to, I'm stuck using one of several suboptimal pronoun options. For example, if I want to say:
The lawyer is sick. ___ is going ...
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