Welcome to another week of Dear Duolingo, an advice column just for learners. Catch up on past installments here . Hello again, learners! Remember how I promised you a part two on grammatical gender? This is that part two! Let’s remind ourselves of the original question: Last time, to answer that question, we dug into grammatical gender —a system of noun categories . One important take away is that, in languages that use a noun gender system, a word’s meaning usually won’t help you predict its grammatical gender. That can be a little disappointing to learners of those languages, but there is good news: There are often other patterns you can look for to determine whether a word is masculine, feminine, or even a third category! Differences in grammatical gender systems There can be big differences in how grammatical gender works across languages, both in how many categories there are and in which words have to match the noun’s gender. How many categories are there?…