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Esperanto is an [agglutinative language]?. It has no grammatical genders, although it does assume the male gender for many of its nouns, forcing the use of a special affix to refer a noun to the female equivalent (thus, in Esperanto, a sister is defined as a "female brother", a grammatical process that to many modern ears seems sexist). The language has no distinct verb conjugations by person and number, and thus no agreement between noun and verb are necessary in sentences. However, nouns and adjectives have somewhat more grammatical complexity, with two cases, nominative and accusative, and nouns and adjectives must agree in gender and number. The accusative case is also used for certain miscellaneous grammatical constructions. |
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Esperanto is an [agglutinative language]?. It has no grammatical genders, although it does assume the male gender for many of its nouns, forcing the use of a special affix to refer a noun to the female equivalent (thus, in Esperanto, a sister is defined as a "female brother"; this male bias as served as the source of criticism of Esperanto). The language has no distinct verb conjugations by person and number, and thus no agreement between noun and verb are necessary in sentences. However, nouns and adjectives have somewhat more grammatical complexity, with two cases, nominative and accusative, and nouns and adjectives must agree in gender and number. The accusative case is also used for certain miscellaneous grammatical constructions. |
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