So far, English has been the only language I've learned which does not have noun genders. I'm sure there are others, but thus far I've been focused on romance languages (which have 2 genders), and slavic languages (which have 3).
What is gender
Like all romance languages, Italian has two genders: masculine and feminine, and these genders are reflected in both singular and plural forms. So this means that every noun is either masculine or feminine; either he or she. There is no "it".
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