English pronunciation · Words Starting with G
Gender Pronunciation
Gender is pronounced JEN-der, IPA /ˈdʒɛndɝ/.
JEN-der
US /ˈdʒɛndɝ/ · UK /ˈdʒɛndə/
Syllables: JEN · der (2 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: The social and personal categories of male, female, and others, and in grammar the classes nouns fall into.
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Gender in a Sentence
- The form asks for your gender.
- German nouns have three genders.
- The study broke the results down by gender.
Common Mispronunciations of Gender
Not GEN-der, with a hard g
The g before e is soft, as in general and gentle. A hard g gives the unrelated word gander.
Not jen-DER
The first syllable takes the weight and the second reduces to der.
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