How many syllables in gender?

There are 2 syllables in the word gender.

Divide gender into syllables:

gender (noun):: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness.; a subclass within a grammatical class (such as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (such as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms see also natural gender

feminine

grammatical category

grammatical gender

masculine

neuter

sex

sexuality

syntactic category

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