Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gender
Participle: gendered
Gerund: gendering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gender |
| you | gender |
| he;she;it | genders |
| we | gender |
| you | gender |
| they | gender |
Perfect
| I | have gendered |
| you | have gendered |
| he;she;it | has gendered |
| we | have gendered |
| you | have gendered |
| they | have gendered |
Past
| I | gendered |
| you | gendered |
| he;she;it | gendered |
| we | gendered |
| you | gendered |
| they | gendered |
Pluperfect
| I | had gendered |
| you | had gendered |
| he;she;it | had gendered |
| we | had gendered |
| you | had gendered |
| they | had gendered |
Future
| I | will gender |
| you | will gender |
| he;she;it | will gender |
| we | will gender |
| you | will gender |
| they | will gender |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gendered |
| you | will have gendered |
| he;she;it | will have gendered |
| we | will have gendered |
| you | will have gendered |
| they | will have gendered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gender |
| you | gender |
| he;she;it | gender |
| we | gender |
| you | gender |
| they | gender |
Perfect
| I | have gendered |
| you | have gendered |
| he;she;it | have gendered |
| we | have gendered |
| you | have gendered |
| they | have gendered |
Imperfect
| I | gendered |
| you | gendered |
| he;she;it | gendered |
| we | gendered |
| you | gendered |
| they | gendered |
Pluperfect
| I | had gendered |
| you | had gendered |
| he;she;it | had gendered |
| we | had gendered |
| you | had gendered |
| they | had gendered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gender |
| you | would gender |
| he;she;it | would gender |
| we | would gender |
| you | would gender |
| they | would gender |
Perfect
| I | would have gendered |
| you | would have gendered |
| he;she;it | would have gendered |
| we | would have gendered |
| you | would have gendered |
| they | would have gendered |
Imperative
| you | gender |
| we | Let's gender |
| you | gender |
Verbs conjugated like 'gender'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gender'
fender,
gander,
render,
tender,
center,
cinder,
dander,
degender,
edder,
elder,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Displaced native Old English hād (“sex, gender”).
Verbs referencing "gender"
German, old spelling
gendern.
Sample Sentences
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In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2). [2011, Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, page 147:]
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At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly. [1996, Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, page 191:]
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Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses. [1997, Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, page 120:]
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Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes. [2003, “Reading the Anonymous Female Voice”, in The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England, page 244:]
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“Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.” [2019 May 22, Megan Specia, “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds”, in New York Times:]