Editing Grammatical gender (section)

==== Animate–inanimate contrast ====
Here nouns that denote [[animate gender|animate]] things (humans and animals) generally belong to one gender, and those that denote inanimate things to another (although there may be some deviation from that principle). Examples include earlier forms of Proto-Indo-European and the earliest family known to have split off from it, the extinct [[Anatolian languages]] {{crossreference|(see [[#Indo-European|below]])|printworthy=y}}. Modern examples include [[Algonquian languages]] such as [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]].{{sfn|Corbett|1991|pp=20–21}}
* In Northern [[Kurdish language]] ([[Kurmanji]]), the same word can have two genders according to the context. For example, if the word {{lang|ku|dar}} (meaning 'wood' or 'tree') is feminine, it means that it is a living tree (e.g., {{lang|ku|dara sêvê}} means 'apple tree'), but if it is masculine, it means that it is dead, no longer living (e.g., {{lang|ku|darê sêvê}} means 'apple wood'). So if one wants to refer to a certain table that is made of wood from an apple tree, one cannot use the word {{lang|ku|dar}} with a feminine gender, and if one wants to refer to an apple tree in a garden, one cannot use {{lang|ku|dar}} with a masculine gender.