In the 3rd person singular we often have a distinction according to grammatical gender; in English, though, the choice is determined by natural gender; in Hungarian and Finnish we have no differentiation at all, in the Scandinavian languages on the other hand we have a differentiation that incorporate both grammatical and natural gender.
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In the 3rd person singular we often have a distinction according to grammatical gender; in English, though, the choice is determined by natural gender; in Hungarian and Finnish we have no differentiation at all, in the Scandinavian languages on the other hand we have a differentiation that incorporate both grammatical and natural gender.
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Columba thus revealed that the sorcerer had not actually taken milk, but rather had taken blood out of the bull and used his sorcery to mask it, thus showing that Siln�n had failed to actually defy the bull's natural gender but had only just seemingly done so at the cost of the animal's health.
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For example, one might say either " the doctor and his patients " or " the doctor and her patients ", depending on one's knowledge or assumptions about the sex of the doctor in question, as the phrase " the doctor " ( the antecedent ) does not itself have any specific natural gender.
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A remnant of the masculine gender can still be expressed in the singular definite form of adjectives according to natural gender ( male humans ), in the same way as personal pronouns, " han / hon ", are chosen for representing nouns in contemporary Swedish ( male / female human beings and optionally animals ).
