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I usually think grammatical gender is pretty useless in Indo European languages, with most of them having to gender a washing machine, but afro Asiatic ones have a fun additional quirk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_of_gender
Essentially the numbers have to be the opposite gender of whatever it's married to.
This is wild! I have heard many crazy shit but this is new to me
You're just jealous because english does not have grammatical gender.