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I usually think grammatical gender is pretty useless in Indo European languages, with most of them having to gender a washing machine, but afro Asiatic ones have a fun additional quirk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_of_gender
Essentially the numbers have to be the opposite gender of whatever it's married to.
Some languages just don't have any genders which is better
Armenian and Persian are the main Indo European languages that don't have even gendered pronouns. English got halfway there by dropping gendered nouns. The original Indo European language gender was based on if something had a spirit or not, not male or female. It changed into that binary selection early enough that even Sanskrit is gendered with male/female nouns
Korean is one such language.
You're just jealous because english does not have grammatical gender.
This is wild! I have heard many crazy shit but this is new to me