Why Inanimate Objects Have Gender In Some Languages?

My dad used to ask this question- why Queen Elizabeth bottom is always wet?
The answer is ...
“ becoz she sails on the sea”.
Note ship and any other thing that carries ( including ladies) are feminine. Aircraft is also feminine’s not because she takes off or touch down but because she carries.
In Telugu and Hindi , it is attributed to grammar of that language.
But we are seeing girls endearingly addressed in masculine & vice versa.
In Hindi they used to call in endearment “ hare- oouullu ka pattay” here what is the gender of “oouullu”?

 

el ordenador is a computer, and so is la computadora. No differences in how they are plugged to electricity - pins or sockets .
El is the definite article marker for a male whatever, and La is the female definite article ("the" in English).

However, there is "el Hombre de la Gente", meaning "the man of the people". My guess is that the gender is determined how the sound flows out. As a rule for spanish learners one might say that nouns ending with consonants are male, and those ending with vowels are female. La mesa, la ventana, la puerta (table, window and door). However there are always exceptions, like el baño (the bathroom), el programa.

I have also noticed that the gender fetished languages also get adjectives change genders with the nouns they describe. Un Hombre guapo would become una mujer guapa -- guapo vs. guapa to refer to a man or a woman. Hindi does the same thing.

 

So around few months back I took French classes. Thought I'll learn something new and was surprised to see that even in French gender is assigned to the objects. I thought this problem was there only in Hindi

 

Many languages use gender for objects. Sometimes, the same object would be a male in one language, but female in another. This can be tough when the native speaker of one language is learning the other one. I found a psychology journal article with some examples:

Can grammatical gender influence speakers’ cognitive processes when they’re speaking another language entirely?

In 2002, researchers set out to answer that question. They created a list of 24 objects that have opposite genders in Spanish and German; in each language, half of the objects were masculine and half were feminine. Speaking English and using materials written in English, the researchers asked a group of native Spanish speakers and a group of native German speakers —all of whom were proficient in English— to generate three adjectives for each item on the list.

Across the board, object gender influenced the participants’ judgments. For example, the word “key” is masculine in German and feminine in Spanish. German speakers in the study tended to describe keys as hard, heavy, jagged, metal, and useful. Spanish speakers, on the other hand, used words such as golden, intricate, little, lovely, and tiny when describing keys. The word “bridge” is feminine in German and masculine in Spanish. Sure enough, German speakers described bridges as beautiful, elegant, fragile, pretty, and slender, while Spanish speakers said they were big, dangerous, strong, sturdy, and towering.
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That got me to wonder about Spanish words.... el Colegio versus la Universidad No wonder we need/have gender reveal parties, and some go on to create huge forest fires.