Editing Indonesian language (section)

==== Gender ====
Indonesian does not make use of [[grammatical gender]], and there are only selected words that use natural [[Grammatical gender|gender]]. For instance, the same word is used for ''he/him'' and ''she/her'' ({{lang|id|dia}} or {{lang|id|ia}}) or for ''his'' and ''her'' ({{lang|id|dia}}, {{lang|id|ia}} or {{lang|id|-nya}}). No real distinction is made between "girlfriend" and "boyfriend", both of which can be referred to as {{lang|id|pacar}} (although more colloquial terms as {{lang|id|cewek}} girl/girlfriend and {{lang|id|cowok}} boy/boyfriend can also be found). A majority of Indonesian words that refer to people generally have a form that does not distinguish between the natural genders. However, unlike English, distinction is made between older or younger.

There are some words that have gender: for instance, {{lang|id|putri}} means "daughter" while {{lang|id|putra}} means "son"; {{lang|id|pramugara}} means "male flight attendant" while {{lang|id|pramugari}} means "female flight attendant". Another example is {{lang|id|olahragawan}}, which means "sportsman", versus {{lang|id|olahragawati}}, meaning "sportswoman". Often, words like these (or certain suffixes such as "-a" and "-i" or "-wan" and "wati") are absorbed from other languages (in these cases, from [[Sanskrit]]).
In some regions of Indonesia such as Sumatra and Jakarta, {{lang|id|abang}} (a gender-specific term meaning "older brother") is commonly used as a form of address for older siblings/males, while {{lang|id|kakak}} (a non-gender specific term meaning "older sibling") is often used to mean "older sister". Similarly, more direct influences from other languages, such as Javanese and Chinese, have also seen further use of other gendered words in Indonesian. For example: {{lang|jv|Mas}} ("older brother"), {{lang|jv|Mbak}} ("older sister"), {{lang|jv|Koko}} ("older brother") and {{lang|jv|Cici}} ("older sister").