| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Is the \'human being\' in your language \'he\', \'she\' or \'it\'? In mine - she. Thread poster: Katia Soshynska
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According to Collins:
man
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a human being regardless of sex or age, considered as a representative of mankind; a person.
he
1. refers to a male person or animal, eg, he looks interesting, he\'s a fine stallion.
2. refers to an indefinite antecedent such as one, eg, whoever, or anybody: everybody can do as he likes.
3. refers to a person or animal of unknown or unspecified sex, eg, a member of the party may vote ha... See more According to Collins:
man
eg,
a human being regardless of sex or age, considered as a representative of mankind; a person.
he
1. refers to a male person or animal, eg, he looks interesting, he\'s a fine stallion.
2. refers to an indefinite antecedent such as one, eg, whoever, or anybody: everybody can do as he likes.
3. refers to a person or animal of unknown or unspecified sex, eg, a member of the party may vote has he likes.
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| | | | | 'Gender' is a misleading label | Apr 25, 2003 |
For the sorts of things being discussed here \'gender\' is really a misleading label. One would be better off using something like \'classes\' or \'categories\' and calling them things like \'red\' and \'blue\'.
| | | | Antonella DI FAZIO (X)
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in italian human being = essere umano that is HE
| | | | Antonella DI FAZIO (X)
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Human being ,essere umano in italian is HE.
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Özden Arıkan 
Germany
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there is no concept of gender, grammatically speaking. And there is only one pronoun for the third person singular, "o" namely, which is used for he, she and it. "Human being" is "insan" which is again free of any gender. However, the term "insanoðlu" which literally means "human son" or "the son of human" is widely used, at least by not-so-politically-correct speakers to cover the sense of "human being" in general.
| | | | Mario Marcolin
Sweden
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Traditionally Swedish has three genders (as German): Masculine, Feminine (-a in singular) and Neutral.
människa (human being) = Feminine/n
kvinna (woman) = Feminine/n
man (man) = Masculine/n
barn (child) = neuter/t
In some dialects you may refer to människa (human being) as "hon" (she)!
Grammatical gender, however is
"Utrum"(Masc/Fem) vs Neutrum:
människan (the human being)/Utrum = N-gender
kvinnan (the w... See more Traditionally Swedish has three genders (as German): Masculine, Feminine (-a in singular) and Neutral.
människa (human being) = Feminine/n
kvinna (woman) = Feminine/n
man (man) = Masculine/n
barn (child) = neuter/t
In some dialects you may refer to människa (human being) as "hon" (she)!
Grammatical gender, however is
"Utrum"(Masc/Fem) vs Neutrum:
människan (the human being)/Utrum = N-gender
kvinnan (the woman)/Utrum = N-gender
mannen (the man)/Utrum = N-gender
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