Translations:Wiktionnaire:Actualités/030-septembre-2017/52/en

The Mosetén language spoken in Bolivia has a grammatical gender system, which is quite rare in the languages of this part of the world. The two genders are called by convention masculine and feminine because they are associated with human beings assigned as masculine and feminine according to their sexes. However, many nouns are also gender-marked with one mark or the other without being motivated in their meaning. And, even more interestingly, the verbs also take a specific mark indicating gender! For intransitive verbs (without direct objects), the gender follows the one of the subject and is indicated for all persons. For transitive verbs, it is more complicated, and the marking appears mainly when both the subject and the object are in the third person. The gender is also present on locative adverbs and on grammatical adverbs such as only and on particles forming questions.