n align="justify"> When the sex of the animal is not indicated by the noun, nouns
denoting the larger and bolder animals are generally associated with
the male sex (elephant, horse, dog, eagle, etc), while nouns denoting
the smaller and weaker ones with the female (cat, hare, parrot, etc): The elephant lifted his mighty trunk The cat has upset her milkEnglish inanimate things or abstract notions are usually personified and the nouns denoting them are referred to as belonging to those of the male or female sex. Here are some traditional associations: ) The things and notions expressed by the noun sun and by theexpressing such ideas as strength, fierceness (anger, death, fear, war, etc) are associated with the male sex:
It is pleasant to watch the
sun in
his chariot of gold, and the moon in her chariot of pearl. (Wilde)
... it seamed as if death were raging round this floating prison seeking for his prey. (Irving.)
) The things and notions expressed by the nouns moon and earth, by the names of vessels (ship, boat, steamer , etc), vehicles (car, carriage, coach, etc), countries and by the nouns expressing such ideas as gentleness, beauty (kindness, spring, peace, dawn, etc) are associated with the female sex: Moon was behind the clouds but an hour later we saw her in full.
She is a good car. She was a good boat. sent her representative to the conference.is necessary to distinguish sex and gender in the Russian language. Sex is a logical semantic category which reflects biological characteristic (sex) of living beings.category is formed by the aforesaid nouns denoting male and female sex.is a formal grammatical category which is represented by a ...
