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# neuter

adjective (neuter); verb (neuter, neuters, neutered, neutering)

«neuter» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To neuter a pet animal is to have a vet do an operation so it can't have babies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#m1)
2. (grammar) Neuter means neither masculine nor feminine; some languages, like German, have neuter nouns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#m2)
3. Neuter can mean having no sex organs, like worker bees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life about pets (neutering cats and dogs). In language lessons about grammatical gender in German, Latin and Ukrainian.

### Examples

- We had our cat neutered at the vet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x1)
- Neutering helps stop too many stray kittens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x2)
- In German, «das Kind» is neuter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x3)
- English nouns don't have neuter gender in grammar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x4)
- Worker ants are neuter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x5)
- The vet neuters dogs on Tuesdays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x6)

### Note

Past: neutered. Do not confuse with «neutral» (not taking sides). «Neutered» animals are often called «spayed» (females) or «castrated» (males).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «neuter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«neuter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/neuter.html) on Mova free.