What foreign languages don't have genders?

Question

i'm looking to learn a foreign language, but i don't want to learn a language where the nouns have genders. what languages don't have that? does swedish have genders? because i kind of want to learn a scandanavian language, but i'm fine with any language.

Answer 1

Mandarin -- > Chinese

Answer 2

I don't think genders are the hard things to learn, it's the verbs!

Answer 3

"Languages without noun classes or grammatical genders :"

Afrikaans

Armenian

Azeri

Basque

Bislama

Bugis

Burmese

Cebuano

Central Yup'ik

Chinese

Chol

English (a trace of the masculine/feminine/neuter distinction of Old English in the personal pronouns "he", "she", "it" and some related pronouns)

Esperanto (includes a system of "natural" gendered personal pronouns similar to English, but without other morphological impacts)

Estonian

Answer 4

Zee Language of Love

Answer 5

Genders aren't really that hard to figure out...

Answer 6

My rule of thumb is: the majority of languages (if not all) from Latin and Greek do have genders, since Romans and Greeks were a bit 'obsessed' by them (Latin even has 3 genders: they added neuter as well).

Answer 7

hi there..

u can learn languages of Asia, like Japanese, Chinese, or korean, they don't have genders in their language systems.

good luck..

Answer 8

In swedish, there are genders, but you can choose to not say them. Like if you want to say teacher, you only have to say "lärare". It doesn't matter which gender the techer has got. It was msotly back in the days they said "lärarinna" to a female teacher. So it doesn't matter if you say "skådespelare"(actor) or "skådespelerska"(actress) to an actress. Only the really picky ones will correct you.