Gender is an important topic in English grammar that shows the sex or identity of a noun or pronoun.
Just like in Hindi we say “Boy” and “Girl”, in English, nouns and pronouns also change according to gender.

✅ What is Gender?
Gender is a word that indicates the sex of a person, animal, object, or any living being.

💬 Definition:
Gender is the classification of a noun or pronoun as masculine, feminine, common, or neuter, depending on the sex or identity it represents.

It is a grammatical category that tells us whether a noun or pronoun is Male, Female, Both (Common), or Neuter.

🧾 Types of Gender
There are four types of gender in English grammar:

1️⃣ Masculine Gender
These are words that represent male beings.

Examples:
Boy, Man, King, Father, Brother, Bull

2️⃣ Feminine Gender
These are words that represent female beings.

Examples:
Girl, Woman, Queen, Mother, Sister, Cow

3️⃣ Common Gender
These are words that can represent both male and female.

Examples:
Teacher, Student, Doctor, Friend, Parent

4️⃣ Neuter Gender
These are words for inanimate objects, which do not have gender.

Examples:
Table, Book, Pen, Car, Mobile, School

📊 Bonus Table: Gender Conversion Examples

🧠 Bonus Facts

• Some words like teacher, doctor, student, engineer are gender-neutral.
  The gender is understood from the context:

• She is a teacher. / He is a teacher.

• In older English, there were more masculine/feminine conversion words, but in modern English, most words are used as common gender.

✍️ Conclusion
Gender is a basic grammar topic that teaches us which gender a word refers to.
Knowing the correct gender of nouns helps you speak and write English more accurately.