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Gender

The values are masculine, feminine, inanimate, nonneuter and neuter. The value nonneuter comprises the first three values when opposed to neuter. (The complications are due to the interaction between a grammatical two-gender system and a semantic anaphoric system for animateness and sex.) The feature is applicable in singular for personal and possessive pronouns and, in the two-gender form, for most other subcategories.

Attribute Value Sw. example Sw. tag
Gender feminine hon pron-pers-sg3-fem
masculine han pron-pers-sg3-mask
inanimate den pron-pers-sg3-in
neuter det pron-pers-sg3-neu

Attribute Value Sw. example Sw. tag
Gender neuter vilket pron-rel-neu
nonneuter vilken pron-rel-noneu