1. She does refrain from using the masculine gender when speaking of God. 2. Garbo had a habit of speaking of herself in the masculine gender . 3. Choosing the masculine gender will often seem more formal than using the feminine. 4. In German, for example, accusative case is always overt on arguments with masculine gender . 5. The masculine gender is also the indeterminate gender as in many other Indo-European languages. 6. Over time the feminine and masculine genders merged into a " common gender ". 7. In Kokborok there are four genders : masculine gender , feminine gender, common gender, and neuter gender. 8. In such cases, one says that the feminine gender is semantically marked, whereas the masculine gender is unmarked. 9. They feel that the masculine gender variants should be used, even when the professional in question is female. 10. Male sex is important even for the lowly nematode, a soil worm that can reproduce without the masculine gender .