Well tell them to hurry up then ! " . this may be because " it " is neutral gender whilst " them " is common gender.
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However, even among regular nouns, the choice between-er and-e for common gender nouns is not predictable in monosyllables and one can only generalize that borrowings tend to take-er.
23.
A common gender-based price discount is a " Ladies'night " promotion, in which female patrons pay less for alcoholic drinks or a lower cover charge than male patrons do.
24.
Between 2011 and 2012 Mori women were the most common gender and ethnic group to be admitted to hospital following assault with the perpetrator being identified as a family member.
25.
However, this distinction is maintained only in formal or written standard Dutch, whereas many speakers do not make such a distinction in informal speech; they use only the common gender.
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For example, in the early twentieth century the masculine and feminine nouns in Dutch did not yet fall together in the common gender they form now ( leaving aside a few exceptions ).
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In most remaining parts of the Netherlands and in Suriname, the distinction between masculine and feminine nouns has disappeared, producing a common gender that uses the same inflections and pronouns as the original masculine.
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There was no feminine and nouns were divided into two types, " neuters " and " common gender ", the latter so named because the masculine and feminine forms later developed out of it.
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Words which denote male are masculine, words which denote female are feminine, words which can be both male and female are common gender, and words which cannot be either masculine or feminine and neuter gender.
30.
The westside dialect is influenced by Danish ( considered a more appropriate language during the union with Denmark ), where the feminine and masculine genders have merged into a common gender inflected like Norwegian masculine nouns.
