english is a language that does not have nominal phrases that belong to a gender class where agreement of other elements in the phrase is required. dutch is another language that only differentiates between neuter and the common gender. many other languages of the world do have gender classes. german, for example, has three genders; feminine, masculine and neuter. for a romance language like italian, there are feminine and masculine genders. inflections on the adjectives and determiners are used for gender agreement within the pronominal phrase.