To Germans, of course, all of this makes perfectly good sense. They know that a tree is masculine, its buds are feminine, its leaves are neuter; that horses are sexless, clocks are feminine, and tables are masculine. Greek works in exactly the same way: it, too, has grammatical gender—time is masculine, day is feminine, and year is neuter. But keep in mind that the vast majority of nouns are not put in these three classes because there is something masculine, feminine, or neuter about them. The ending