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Feature gend

The gender feature is used for inflectable, attributively used adjectives in singular only. Although plural adjectives might be said to have a gender, we classify them as underspecified with respect to gender (gend=*), in order to avoid ambiguities. This is a practical decision, however. We do not claim that plural adjectives don't have a gender.

Examples where a gender decision is difficult for humans too: