Hi. Just wanted to correct you on your example in French. Past participles are invariable when used with the auxiliary "avoir" (to have), except if they have a direct object before (ex: Marina a créé une machine / La machine que Marina a créée. > Marina created a machine. / The machine Marina created.) In this case, they just agree with the direct object complement and don't give any information about the speaker.Neptune wrote: ↑Sun Mar 11, 2018 5:32 pmA lot of languages have gendered 3rd person pronouns. Virtually all of the Indo-European languages, for example. Slovenian and some other languages have a 2nd person singular used in feminine contexts.
French has participles, which virtually mark pronouns. For example, "J'ai créé" means the speaker is male, while "J'ai créée" means the speaker is female.
Thai has truly gendered first person pronouns.
With the auxiliary verb "être" (to be), on the other hand, the subject agrees with the past participle and you know its grammatical gender. (ex: Je suis allée au supermarché > I went to the supermarket.)