Template:Gender

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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.

Usage

Typical:
{{gender |Username |case }}

Vertical:

{{gender
|Username
|case
}}

Parameters

|Username or |1=Username – The username without the User: prefix
|2= or the second unnamed parameter – Optional parameter for giving the case of the pronoun. Possible values are listed below, and include linguistic terms (and their abbreviations) and "what I want it to say" versions:
- nominative, subject, subjective, sub, he/she, or they – Returns "he", "she" or "they". This is the default value of the case parameter.
- accusative, object, oblique, objective, dative, prepositional, obj, him/her, him, or them – Returns "him", "her", or "them".
- genitive, possessive, pos, his/her, his, or their – Returns "his", "her" or "their".
- genitive pronoun, possessive pronoun, poss, his/hers, hers, or theirs – Returns "his", "hers" or "theirs".
- reflexive, intensive, himself/herself, or themselves – Returns "himself", "herself" or "themselves".
- reflexive2, intensive2, himself/herself2, or themself – Returns "himself", "herself" or "themself" (preferred by The Chicago Manual of Style and some other sources on singular they).

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 return he
{{gender|ExampleFemale}} would return she
{{gender|ExampleNeutral}} would return they
{{gender|ExampleMale|reflexive}} would return himself
{{gender|ExampleNeutral|accusative}} would return them

Pronoun templates
Template	Male	Female	Not specified
`{{they}}`	they	they	they
`{{them}}`	them	them	them
`{{their}}`	their	their	their
`{{theirs}}`	theirs	theirs	theirs
`{{themself}}`	themself	themself	themself
`{{they are}}`	they are	they are	they are
`{{they're}}`	they're	they're	they're
`{{they were}}`	they were	they were	they were
`{{they have}}`	they have	they have	they have
`{{they do}}`	they do	they do	they do
`{{they verb}}`	they {{{2}}}	they {{{2}}}	they {{{2}}}
`{{he or she}}`	he or she	he or she	he or she
`{{him or her}}`	him or her	him or her	him or her
`{{his or her}}`	his or her	his or her	his or her
`{{his or hers}}`	his or hers	his or hers	his or hers
`{{he/she}}`	he/she	he/she	he/she
`{{him/her}}`	him/her	him/her	him/her
`{{his/her}}`	his/her	his/her	his/her
`{{pronoun}}`	(See template documentation for parameters)
`{{gender}}`	(See template documentation for parameters)
`{{ucfirst:{{they}}}}`	They	They	They
`{{ucfirst:{{their}}}}`	Their	Their	Their
`{{ucfirst:{{they are}}}}`	They are	They are	They are
`{{ucfirst:{{they were}}}}`	They were	They were	They were
`{{ucfirst:{{they have}}}}`	They have	They have	They have
`{{ucfirst:{{they do}}}}`	They do	They do	They do
`{{ucfirst:{{he or she}}}}`	He or she	He or she	He or she
`{{ucfirst:{{his or her}}}}`	His or her	His or her	His or her
`{{ucfirst:{{he/she}}}}`	He/she	He/she	He/she
`{{ucfirst:{{his/her}}}}`	His/her	His/her	His/her

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Usage

Parameters

Examples

See also