English does not have a built in grammatical structure that employs gender in noun usage as does greek, spanish, latin, hebrew, etc... In spanish nouns ending with an 'o' would be masculine and female would end with an 'a'. Even things inanimate lets say like a 'table' or a 'book' in spanish this would be in feminine tense. English does not have this structure. Generally inanimate things are described neutrally by calling them "it". But some things are referred to as "she" like storms or ships or sometimes cities etc... For example when I purchased a shotgun the store owner said to me, "Boy, she sure is a beut..." This is why english is sometimes a difficult language for people to learn because of how grammatical gender is used.
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