Editing Grammatical gender (section)

==== Masculine–feminine–neuter{{anchor|Masculine–feminine–neuter}} contrast ====
This is similar to systems with a masculine–feminine contrast, except that there is a third available gender, so nouns with sexless or unspecified-sex referents may be either masculine, feminine, or neuter. There are also certain exceptional nouns whose gender does not follow the denoted sex, such as the German {{lang|de|Mädchen}}, meaning "girl", which is neuter. This is because it is actually a diminutive of "Magd" and all diminutive forms with the suffix {{lang|de|-chen}} are neuter. Examples of languages with such a system include later forms of [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] {{crossreference|(see [[#Indo-European|below]])|printworthy=y}}, [[Sanskrit]], some [[Germanic languages]], most [[Slavic languages]], a few [[Romance languages]] ([[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Asturian language|Asturian]] and [[Neapolitan language|Neapolitan]]), [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Latin]], and [[Modern Greek grammar|Greek]].