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Katav Pavel Adamek: > Gender suffixes are attached to inanimate nouns > only if you want to distinguish > convex versus concave, > for example > connector, screw, lens etc. > It also may mean closed versus opened; > and with verbal abstracts it means > perfect versus imperfect: Oh, I see. Thas indeed a strange feature, resembling certain "philosophic" langs, but indeed it's up to you to decide what you want to have in your conlang :)) Newgaritic follows the traditional Semitic distinction between masculine and feminine both in animate and inanimate nouns: _ma.le.ko_ /melko/ 'king' :: _ma.le.ka.to_ /melketo/ 'queen' - using derivation; _aa.bo_ /abo/ 'father' (m) :: _u.me.mo_ /um:o/ 'mother' (f) - semanticly; _bee.to_ /be:to/ 'house' (m) :: _sa.na.to_ /seneto/ 'year' (f) such as having feminine ending; and _o.zhe.no_ /oZno/ 'ear' (f) semanticly as a double body part. B'hatzlachah, -- Yitzik