Template:Gender

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This template returns the correct third person singular pronoun to refer to a given user, based on what the user has set as their gender in their preferences. It uses the {{GENDER}} magic word.

Usage

Typical:
{{gender |Username |case }}

Vertical:

{{gender
|Username
|case
}}

Parameters

|Username or |1=Username – The username without the User: prefix
|2= or the second unnamed parameter – Optional parameter for giving the case of the pronoun. Possible values are listed below, and include linguistic terms (and their abbreviations) and "what I want it to say" versions:
- nominative, subject, subjective, sub, he/she, or they – Returns "he", "she" or "they". This is the default value of the case parameter.
- accusative, object, oblique, objective, dative, prepositional, obj, him/her, him, or them – Returns "him", "her", or "them".
- genitive, possessive, pos, his/her, his, or their – Returns "his", "her" or "their".
- genitive pronoun, possessive pronoun, poss, his/hers, hers, or theirs – Returns "his", "hers" or "theirs".
- reflexive, intensive, himself/herself, or themselves – Returns "himself", "herself" or "themselves".
- reflexive2, intensive2, himself/herself2, or themself – Returns "himself", "herself" or "themself" (preferred by The Chicago Manual of Style and some other sources on singular they).

Examples

In these examples, the hypothetical users User:ExampleMale, User:ExampleFemale and User:ExampleNeutral are supposed to be male, female and of unspecified gender, respectively.

One parameter:

{{gender|ExampleMale}} would return he
{{gender|ExampleFemale}} would return she
{{gender|ExampleNeutral}} would return they

Two parameters:

{{gender|ExampleMale|reflexive}} would return himself
{{gender|ExampleFemale|genitive pronoun}} would return hers
{{gender|ExampleNeutral|accusative}} would return them

Pronoun templates
Template	Male	Female	Not specified
`{{they}}`	he	she	they
`{{them}}`	him	her	them
`{{their}}`	his	her	their
`{{theirs}}`	his	hers	theirs
`{{themself}}`	himself	herself	themself
`{{they are}}`	he is	she is	they are
`{{they're}}`	he's	she's	they're
`{{they were}}`	he was	she was	they were
`{{they have}}`	he has	she has	they have
`{{they've}}`	he's	she's	they've
`{{they do}}`	he does	she does	they do
`{{they verb}}`	he {{{3}}}	she {{{3}}}	they {{{2}}}
`{{pronoun}}`	(See template documentation for parameters)
`{{gender}}`	(See template documentation for parameters)
`{{ucfirst:{{they}}}}`	He	She	They
`{{ucfirst:{{their}}}}`	His	Her	Their
`{{ucfirst:{{they are}}}}`	He is	She is	They are
`{{ucfirst:{{they were}}}}`	He was	She was	They were
`{{ucfirst:{{they have}}}}`	He has	She has	They have
`{{ucfirst:{{they do}}}}`	He does	She does	They do

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Template:Gender

Usage

Parameters

Examples

See also

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