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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.
Contents
Usage
{{Gender
|Username
|Case
}}
Parameters
- Username
- The user's username without the User: prefix
- Case
- Optional parameter for giving the case of the pronoun. Possible values are listed below:
- "nominative" (also "subject", "subjective", "sub", and "he/she") – Returns "he", "she" or "they". This is the default value of the case parameter.
- "accusative" (also "object", "oblique", "objective", "dative", "prepositional", "obj", and "him/her") – Returns "him", "her", or "them".
- "genitive" (also "possessive", "pos", and "his/her") – Returns "his", "her" or "their".
- "genitive pronoun" (also "possessive pronoun", "poss", and "his/hers") – Returns "his", "hers" or "theirs".
- "reflexive" (also "intensive" and "himself/herself") – Returns "himself", "herself" or "themselves".
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.
{{gender|ExampleMale}}would returnhe{{gender|ExampleFemale}}would returnshe{{gender|ExampleNeutral}}would returnthey{{gender|ExampleMale|reflexive}}would returnhimself{{gender|ExampleNeutral|accusative}}would returntheir
See also
- {{gender:}} magic word